People will decide what is best for them. Blocking access to websites for having ad blocker or having no ad blocker is an asshole move. I know it is intended for pun, but still.
Encouraging a safer internet is an asshole move?
Encouraging and forcing is different. Just because forcing ad blocker on people is aligned with so many people’s view doesn’t mean that it is a great move. Anything that is forced on people is an asshole move.
Not joking, every time a website asks me to turn off my adblocker, I leave and put it on my blocklist so it never shows up again. Then I simply use their competition instead.
i generally go into noscript, poke in the console, or look for a bypass extension, just to spite them.
like sites that disable right click, i scrape them on principle…
It’s ok.
Now come and check out your 1 out of 3 free blogpost of the month!
LETS GOOOOO
gets adware
Uno reverse 😂
I mean, it’s totally fashionable to give people who still somehow use Microsoft Internet Explorer scare pop-ups, so why not this?
If you don’t run an ad blocker, your browser just isn’t safe. This was the security community consensus 15 years ago. Shit sure got worse since then!
And now you got the likes of google and YouTube that prevent things from working if you do run an ad blocker
They try, which ended up just making a certain adblocker much more effective.
It will be a continuous battle. But, eventually, one or the other will lose
Since mastodon and lemmy are federated, could one have postet the mastodon toot directly?
Think about it like this: even when you link other posts in lemmy, you link them in their home instance, because there is no way to link posts so that everyone gets one to their own instance as you can do with communities in the threadiverse. Neither can you repost it in any meaningful way, since that just means copying the content, which would make it appear as though you said it yourself.
Okay, so I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for my neocities site (whenever I have the time and drive to work on it). The biggest problem to all of this is the fact I don’t wanna use any JavaScript and don’t know if it’s even possible without JS.
I’ve already, in the past, been experimenting on another neocities page I have access to the idea of blocking access to everyone using a chromium based or safari browser with and without JS, too. To say the least, it’s difficult for a noob like me and so far has not worked like planned. Especially since there are so many forks of chromium with different names/user-agents.
Put it in an element with a class like “ad-banner”, it should be enough for most ad blockers to block it.
I’d have to look up how to do it, but I’ll definitely have to try this to see what happens.
just a <div>Your ad block ad goes here</div>
view source because Lemmy understands html.
I mean, I’d imagine it’s trivial to do without js. Just try to load an image or similar with a name that’d be blocked into the background image for a div that covers the entire page. Should silently fail to load with a blocker, or shows your error image if they don’t.
As a total HTML/CSS noob, I’ll definitely have to look up how to do this. I’ll probably end up trying it on the other site just in case I royally mess up my main site by accident. I at least have immediate backups for the other site right now, so I don’t mind experimenting with it.
You can try to load an image from a subdomain like
ads., or from a filename like468x80.png(see EasyList) to catch all the common ad blockers, maybe with an id ofAd-Containerto catch css-based ad blockers.DNS based blockers that use regular expressions or wildcards will work with the subdomain approach, but most of them still rely on hardcoded list of domains which means you either need to get a throwaway (sub)domain on their lists OR serve data from an actual ad server (or just live with the occasional false positives from people who believe DNS blocking is enough [which it really isn’t if we’re being honest])
But honestly, in this case doing it with JS should be fine since disabling JS is a quite effective ad blocker anyway. Here’s how I do it for example: https://ads.d.on-t.work/ad.min.js (and you can try it out at https://w.on-t.work)
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🕵️ hmmm, corpo shill has been here
Or someone who doesn’t like generic comments. You could paste half those on any comment chain. They’re the equivalent of an upvote but the commenters felt the need to say it instead. Good downvotes.
Jerboa user?
yep
I would downvote that crap too. Contributes nothing to the discussion, waste of time and screen space. That’s the comment equivalent of banner ads
That or they’re downvoting low effort comments
I’m not sure how, but you can find their username on lemmy 💀
You need to be an admin on a federated instance
Yeah… don’t though. It is bad practice to target people like that
Agreed
On kbin you just go to the comment, click on More -> Activity, and go to the ‘reduces’ tab.
Why the downvotes ? That’s a legitimate response since Lemmy and Kbin are compatible. WHO has downvoted you ? :-)
This technically makes this an ad for adblockers. Which, by enabling an adblocker, will disable said ad.
Make it infinitely more obnoxious, 90’s era blinky text, gifs, auto play music… “You wouldn’t be seeing or hearing any of this bullshit if you ran an ad blocker”
Next, give warnings that Chrome and Edge are not supported browsers.
I love this
Good old Cluley, he also has an award winning podcast, Smashin’ Security. It’s a light hearted take on recent security events. Its usually 30 - 45 minutes long.
One of my favourites
This already exists - @[email protected]’s blog already has a popup about not having an adblocker, although it is easy to dismiss. It’s probably a bad idea to block content based on not having one, as detecting ad blockers is a losing battle (as YouTube is learning).
Web Environment Integrity enters the room
It’s not a losing battle.
It’s like a lock on your front door: Anyone that really wants to bypass it will easily. It’s there to stop most people.
On Reddit/Lemmy we’re exposed to mostly people that know how to, but outside a lot of people will think Adblockers are the discovery of the century when their brother in law installs it, until they need to update it and it won’t work ever again because they can’t click an update button.
yeah the adblock detection doesn’t work for me
at least not in Mull with uBlock Origin on Android with AdAway (root)
i don’t really know what im talking about, but wouldn’t it be a bit easier in this case since the goal isn’t to evade the ad blocker? rather than try to detect the ad blocker, wouldn’t it be possible to design the pop up so that it’s easily detected by ad blockers (or annoyance blockers)?
Not all ad blockers remove elements from web pages, and if they acted that predictably you could detect the ad blocker by detecting whether an expected element is hidden.
I have not looked through an ad blocker’s code, but I don’t believe it is that simple.
Looking at this blogpost for a wordpress blocking plugin, it basically is just adding a bunch of css classes commonly used by ads to a div and some workarounds to support ad blockers that work by blocking files.
If you’re not serving data from a popular ad server like google/doubleclick there will always be a false positive or two, especially with things like hosts-based ad blockers that are extremely rudimentary but work ~60-70% of the time.
And if you manage to serve data from doubleclick then either you’re working for them or something has gone horribly wrong. In either case just putting up a script to say “please use an ad blocker” is the least of your concerns.
Yeah, I use this one and got served with the popup as expected
Just put class=“facebook ad” to your div and 99% of adblockers will hide it, really simple.
ah but this is easy to deal with. Simply put the message in an ad campaign that
Based
Ad man?
