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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: 2) by Lester on Thursday December 24 2020, @09:10AM
t is their fault.
I don't mind (at least not much) getting some advertising, but that is not what they do. Now, advertising is not show a note or a banner, it is sending everything they know about me to an advertising monster that knows more about me than myself, and that sells that information to other bigger advertising tycoons, And, then, finally display the perfect ad for me.
Display the ad by yourself, but don't insert a script of third parties that store my IP, what I do with the mouse, what other sites I visit and it collects data from where it is able in order to guess who I am, what and where I buy, where I live, how old I am, who are my family, my friends, my coworkers, my interests, my hobbies, my fears etc.
You broke the contract, so I don't accept ads of your site anymore.