More Websites Prevent Access if Using an Ad Blocker

More and more sites requiring email address, i only want to do a quick duckin to see what site is about, now fill out address, phone...
no thank you.
Ad Blockers and the other do dads we are supposed to purchase, circumvented by blood sucking commercials pushers 👺
 
If the website has information on, that I really need to read it then I just disable it for a few minutes on that site, and then as I leave the site the ad blocker goes back on and if later I go back to the same site the ad blocker is on.
 
If it's a well respected website, I'll disable the adblocker or in some cases, I'll turn off Javascript, which disables the ads, but you lose some content and formatting.
 
debodun said:
That's the whole point of having an ad blocker - I don't want to see distracting ads. Now several sites I visit won't allow access unless I disable it.
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I too have found this frustrating...
but not as much as having more and more news papers requiring you to pay to read a complete article.

Now I am not against supporting a news paper in fact I think is should be done across the board but not for $120 a year or more because that is what $10 a month ends up costing and I have seen it up to $160 a year.

I know being older one can remember buying a newspaper for around a quarter and that was the whole paper
so why not something like a buck a week for those of us living on social security who only
want to read one or two articles?
 
Pete said:
I too have found this frustrating...
but not as much as having more and more news papers requiring you to pay to read a complete article.

Now I am not against supporting a news paper in fact I think is should be done across the board but not for $120 a year or more because that is what $10 a month ends up costing and I have seen it up to $160 a year.

I know being older one can remember buying a newspaper for around a quarter and that was the whole paper
so why not something like a buck a week for those of us living on social security who only
want to read one or two articles?
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that's still over $50 a year Pete..why would you want to/... there's so much more free news out there without you having to pay certain websites for it...
 
It seems that Internet News sites are being inundated with advertisements...just like most newspapers and TV news shows. I use AdBlock which blocks them...and I turn it on/off if I really want to read the topic. If I run into a site which wants me to "subscribe", I just do a search on the topic, and usually find another site which offers the same news.
Also, every couple of days, I clear my "Browsing History", which also erases any "cookies" my searches create, and that helps eliminate any spam e-mails that result from my searches.
 
It's almost to the point where no websites will allow you to read their content if you have an ad-blocker. I'll bet I have 100 "pause on this site" exceptions, or even more, so why bother even using an ad-blocker? I don't have a problem with ads as long as they're unobtrusive, but sometimes they start playing and won't stop, and they're hidden so you can't figure out how to turn them off, and the audio just keeps on playing until you get fed up and try to close the tab, but then they stop you and ask you if you really want to leave, and sometimes you have to kill your browser to get out of it.

So, after some thought, I guess I'll keep the ad-blocker and just turn off Javascript on the sites that intentionally try to annoy you.
 
I never disable it. If I can't go to it without disabling it, I leave and find the information elsewhere. There are some that ask you to disable it or have a button that says go to it anyway. So I do that. As for the news, I only go to a select few for the real news.
 
I don't mind a few ads, the websites need to pay the bills. However a lot of them have too many and as

Murrmurr says there are other problems.​


I never give out my real email address, when asked I usually just move on to another website. Rarely I will give a made up email address, sometimes that works.

If more people would use the ad blockers and stop giving out email addresses then the websites would be forced to find another way to make money.
 
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