The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by erikb on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:59AM (#11133447)

I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by arijun on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:59AM (#11133767)

I think it's their prerogative to say "either get served ads, become a paying member, or leave." I imagine they wont mourn the loss of someone who would have likely not brought them revenue in any form, ever.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by Symmetry on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:39AM (#11134056)

Part of the reason I use Addblock rather than another plugin is that I agree with their whole "acceptable adds" idea and I'm perfectly happy with adds if they aren't too annoying. But I wonder how many companies actually use that program?

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by arijun on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:03AM (#11133788)

That came off reading much more judgy than I had intended. I meant it's their prerogative in the same sense that serving the ads in first place was their prerogative, not that there is a moral imperative to listen when they do.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by erikb on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:49PM (#11138706)

Yeah. That's what I mean. People leave, they have no viewers anymore, everybody happy.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by arijun on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:05AM (#11133803)

If you have uBlock, advanced mode can block the script that puts up the adwall. Just click off the allowance of 3rd party scripts for the page.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by erikb on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:50PM (#11138710)

Thanks I'll try that one!

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by wdmeldon on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:04AM (#11133474)

Yup. Tried for a few seconds to add a custom blocking rule and then immediately left the page. I empathize with content creators, but this reeks of desperation.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by cglace on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:13AM (#11133855)

I don't know. I took the two seconds to unblock them. How would you have implemented it to look less desperate?

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by beedogs on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:00AM (#11133454)

Yep, looks like they've started doing it. There was a discussion about their adwall plans last week.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by eddyg on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:04AM (#11134273)

And of course the reaction was the Anti-Adblock Killer (AAK) list, which you can subscribe to in the blocker of your choice: http://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by doodpants on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:24AM (#11133573)

Using Firefox, I just reloaded the page and then hit the Reader View button before the popup came back.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by erikb on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:51PM (#11138713)

Also a great idea! Seldom used that feature until now.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by mchmr on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:31AM (#11133620)

It seems to be javascript. Disabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by e40 on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:41AM (#11133665)

Disabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me.

I can't find this option. Where is it?

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by mchmr on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:05AM (#11133800)

If you open up add-ons find uBlock Origin, press the "go to dashboard" button the first page has a bunch of checkboxes. At the bottom of the first group there is a check box called "I am an advanced user ..." Check that and now you have a mini uMatrix in your uBlock Origin menu.

Global block/allow is the left column, local (to the current domain) block/allow is the right column. I always globally block 3rd party scripts and frames and locally allow things like ajax.google.com when sites are borked.

Apparently now I need to start locally blocking 1st party scripts on sites too because of shenanigans like this.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by ccozan on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:58AM (#11133761)

it is actually uMatrix. I can conform that it works.

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by skoczymroczny on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:06AM (#11133810)

No problem here, using Chrome + Ublock Origin

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Re:The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Grou... by cottonseed on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:26AM (#11133585)

Same here, and same here.

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