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dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts) Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:47 AM Aug 2016

Adblock Plus, accepts payment from more than 70 companies in exchange for letting their ads through

Found that sentence tucked away in the middle of a story today that

Facebook Will Force Advertising on Ad-Blocking Users
The social network will use technology to disguise ads on its desktop service from ad-blocking software

http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-will-force-advertising-on-ad-blocking-users-1470751204

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Adblock Plus, accepts payment from more than 70 companies in exchange for letting their ads through (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Aug 2016 OP

uBlock Origin is what I've been using SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #1

I use Ghostery and Ad Guard, so far, so good. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2016 #2

Thanks - I just ditched Adblock Plus Galileo126 Aug 2016 #3

They do, but you can easily opt-out from seeing those ads, too. SeattleVet Aug 2016 #4

We will see more attempts to subvert ad blockers dixiegrrrrl Aug 2016 #5

Yep, continually escalating... SeattleVet Aug 2016 #6

It's like when the cops started using RADAR in speed traps discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2016 #7

heh I remember having a radar detector Kali Aug 2016 #8

I had this Ford in the 80s discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2016 #9

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)

1. uBlock Origin is what I've been using

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:48 AM

Aug 2016

It's best on Chrome, but there's a Firefox version as well.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)

2. I use Ghostery and Ad Guard, so far, so good.

Reply to SwankyXomb (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:54 AM

Aug 2016

I DID use Ad Block but the news of it being paid to show ads had come out earlier than this report, so I switched.

Galileo126

(2,016 posts)

3. Thanks - I just ditched Adblock Plus

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 11:14 AM

Aug 2016

Good to know these things. Eventually, all anti-corporate entities will be bought out by corporations. Because, that's their job!

SeattleVet

(5,598 posts)

4. They do, but you can easily opt-out from seeing those ads, too.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 11:25 AM

Aug 2016

It's very prominent in the Options page.

I use AdBlock Plus along with 2 Tampermonkey scripts: Anti-Adblock Killer and Fuck FuckAdBlock, which gets around MOST of AdBlock blockers on websites.

(My computer, my desktop, my bandwidth; I decide what I want to see.)

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)

5. We will see more attempts to subvert ad blockers

Reply to SeattleVet (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 11:39 AM

Aug 2016

such as the one the OP article about Facebook trying to get past them.
Already a lot of pages on the Web have a banner at the bottom saying they have detected our adblocks.
So now Ad Blockers will upgrade to get past the ad block blockers, ad infinitum.

SeattleVet

(5,598 posts)

6. Yep, continually escalating...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 11:43 AM

Aug 2016

that what the two add-on scripts I use do - but there are a few sites that still push intrusive ads (at least one time, until I add their servers to the scripts).

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,599 posts)

7. It's like when the cops started using RADAR in speed traps

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 01:18 PM

Aug 2016

Almost overnight the RADAR detector was brought to market. Soon after that cops had VG-2 units which were RADAR detector detectors. Then lots of detectors were marketed with VG-2 modes that shut down the detector when VG-2 emissions were received. This added a RADAR detector detector detector and countermeasure mode to the regular RADAR detector.

(where's the 'makes me dizzy' smiley?)