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Free news sites step up pleas for consumers to disable adblocking software:
If your web browser has recently updated, or you've loaded some new browser extensions, you may be seeing a message when you visit certain free content sites.If your web browser has recently updated, or you've loaded some new browser extensions, you may be seeing a message when you visit certain free content sites.
"Please support journalism by allowing ads," one of the pop-up messages reads.
In the message, there is a large link that will disable the adblocker extension in your browser. There is a smaller link that will allow you to proceed to the site while continuing to block ads.
Dominic Chorafakis, with the cybersecurity consulting firm Akouto, says adblocking extensions aren't exactly new, but it's possible browsers have strengthened them in recent updates.
"Sites that rely on ad revenue, of course, don't like this at all, and there is quite a bit of effort being put in from their side to detect when a visitor has adblocking in place and either ask them politely to disable adblocking or outright prevent them from viewing their content unless they disable it," Chorafakis told ConsumerAffairs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @04:05AM
Ads? What ads? These requests to servers which are who knows where in half, and in most civilized countries connecting to the second half should result in a bullet to head for cooperation with enemy? These scripts which steal data and execute code? These programs causing large energy losses?
There are NO ADS anymore. There is a surveillance platform and we all pay for it in energy.
There is no advertisement anymore too! Most of these contain no information about the product. There is a psychological (or, why not, memetic) pollution which is no different than fumes in air or waste in water. Sorry, I'm not going to support this crap.