[news] Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods

[unixman_again]

"Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law."

Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods - The Register

[tmoon-mint]

None of this would even be necessary if websites were responsible when choosing the ads they choose to show on their websites. I find the websites that detect ad blockers are the ones guilty of having malicious click bait ads and videos ads that play automatically. In my opinion an Ad blocker is now an essential piece of any anti malware solution.

[Garacesh]

With the current state of malvertising, I refuse to not use an ad blocker. It's up there with AV and Firewall as 'Essential' these days.

 

Any site that says "You're using adblock, so you can't view this page." gets the tab closed and I think nothing less of it. You can always find another source online.

 

None of this would even be necessary if websites were responsible when choosing the ads they choose to show on their websites.

That's why I whitelist EduGeek AFAIK, @Dos_Box vets all advertisements. And they're hosted on Edugeek itself, they're not served by a CDN or similar. Also no flashing YOU'RE VISITOR NUMBER #1,000,000! or ads with sounds. Which I appreciate greatly.

Edited April 25, 2016 by Garacesh

[DJ-1701]

Hear, hear!

[Dos_Box]

With the current state of malvertising, I refuse to not use an ad blocker. It's up there with AV and Firewall as 'Essential' these days.

 

Any site that says "You're using adblock, so you can't view this page." gets the tab closed and I think nothing less of it. You can always find another source online.

 

 

That's why I whitelist EduGeek AFAIK, @Dos_Box vets all advertisements. And they're hosted on Edugeek itself, they're not served by a CDN or similar. Also no flashing YOU'RE VISITOR NUMBER #1,000,000! or ads with sounds. Which I appreciate greatly.

 

Thanks

Yes, we do host our own ads, but we do have a third party provider we also get ads from.

Again we get to vet the ads unless their system goes awry as happend the other week and we had to pull their feed for a bit as 'something' was breaking the site. This was restored once we were happy they had fixed the problem

We take our ad hosting very seriously and make sure they are discreat and abide by a strict criteria for file type and size so as not to afect adversly browsing speeds on the site. The amount of time @ZeroHour spends ensuring EduGeek works optimally is quite something to behold and we never let anyhting which would slow dow the site to take priority.

One thing I have noticed in the past few months is newspaper sites which have so many ads on them that they are effectively unreadable as they keep adjusting the page layout well after it should have been stable. Amazon has a similar issue where you try and search for soemthign then it starts to load another element knockign you away from your search

[Garacesh]

One thing I have noticed in the past few months is newspaper sites which have so many ads on them that they are effectively unreadable as they keep adjusting the page layout well after it should have been stable.

 

Mobile versions of sites are notorious for this.. Especially considering adblock isn't as much of a thing on mobile. Grumble grumble.

[tmoon-mint]

Mobile versions of sites are notorious for this.. Especially considering adblock isn't as much of a thing on mobile. Grumble grumble.

 

Not sure about Android but I use 1Blocker on iOS and it works really well. I believe it was iOS 9 that added support for content blockers but I could be wrong.