I know, I know, the wisest thing to do is to abandon them, but today I came across a site that I simply couldn’t bypass because it always blocked me with an extremely stupid “disable your adblock” video, that infuriated me so much… I would 100% migrate to torrents if I didn’t find such unique catalogs on these sites.
don’t visit
99% of the time, unless there’s something I’m convinced I can only get there and I really need it.
It’s not an improvement over the previous meme but I take any chance I get to post this image
Report it on ublock origins github, gets fixed pretty quickly from my experience
yeah i’ve never seen a nag i couldn’t get around with element picker or custom filter. even the youtube injected ads only lasted a few days.
I handle them by realising that whatever they have, it’s not worth disabling the blocker for, so fuck them.
I try and use the right click>inspect, and just delete stuff and see what happens
Thanks, but what about when a website doesn’t let you do this? More than once I’ve seen websites that literally disable the right mouse click, is there a shortcut for this?
Do not allow the website to replace the contextual menu, that is a browser setting (extensions can change/block it too). F12 is the shortcut to get to the page editor by the way.
F12
Ctrl+Shift+i should bring up the inspection panel. It won’t be for the specific element, but it should have a button to get an element picker.
Ublock should have the delete thing(forget what it call). I usually use that.
The element zapper
In desktop Firefox, Ctrl+Shift+C lets you click on an element and inspect it. Then, just press the Delete key. Page scripts can’t block this. On mobile, you have to rely on adding more filter lists.
I think there’s a shortcut, like if you press alt or ctrl while right clicking, you bypass the block. But im not 100% sure
Block third party scripts and third party frames.
Works wonders every time.
Ublock > block element
With more adblock (filter lists).
I usually switch to reader mode if uBlock Origin doesn’t do the trick
If I know the information isn’t available anywhere else and I really need it, I use a temporary unrestricted browser profile.
Otherwise, Ctrl+w it is.
Haven’t seen anyone mention this, but a lot of the times if you’re quick you can just click reader mode and the whole page loads.
Big sites have caught onto this unfortunately, but sometimes switching to reader mode is a quick bypass. Putting the link in archive.is usually works, that’s what I do if it’s urgent local news (eg when my state is flooded or frozen or perhaps on fire)
https://12ft.io/ is faster than archive.is and doesn’t actually archive the page. In cases where you just want to read it and don’t want to waste server space on it, it’s maybe a better option.
Thanks for the tip! That’s definitely a better option as I do kinda feel I’m taking advantage of the archive service sometimes.
I guess rethinking the browser metaphor could help.
Like who tells you that ads couldnt just be displayed on an invisible popup window? Or a second screen?
Those sites generally detect if you dont load certain content. So I guess cosmetic filtering (downloading but not displaying) could already help
I like this idea. It reminds me (a little) of adnauseam.
Search for the headline on a search engine and read the article elsewhere. Usually these news sites just copy and paste the article and slap a different website name on it.
I avoid the site.
