Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by joering2 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:24PM (#16027267)

It wasn't that it was slow for me; I got i9 with 64 ram and things speed up tremendously from my last i7... the huge problem is insecurity!

Lots of website have no control over what ads are popping up! Drudge Report is probably the most frightening! All the time popups of "outdated" Adobe Flash (that I dont have at all), installation of recent updates of Windows 7 (even tho Im on Win 10)... recently I had some sort of ajax script that actually literally installed extension in Chrome (!!) I believe somehow my mouse was hijacked to perform a click action. Unbelievable!

Im fine with Ads so long as someone is properly vetting!!

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by PhantomGremlin on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:37PM (#16027552)

Drudge Report is probably the most frightening!

That particular site is highly functional without allowing any JavaScript at all. All links work. All non-advertising images load.

By default I just don't allow JS. Thank you NoScript. Many sites that won't display anything without JS can be viewed by View -> Page Style -> No Style.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by SilasX on Friday December 29, 2017 @02:58AM (#16028307)

This x1000. Any site can circumvent ad blockers by just doing ads like Drudge. So if they want, they can always show ads. The problem is that they want to do more.

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Re:Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking me... by SilasX on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:05AM (#16029763)

Wait, I shouldn’t have been upvoted there. You said non advertising images. But I think the ads would be shown if self hosted so it’s still possible.

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