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On 15/09/2016 22:47, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:45:35AM +0100, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Had anyone else come across this? Any comments would be welcome. > > It is increasingly common and there is a cat-and-mouse game going on > between advertisers and adblock-developers. I certainly understand why > sites would want to force people to view the ads. > > I do not block ads myself but I block both trackers and have set Flash > as click-to-play by default. This, in practice, stops most ads. > > Blocking Flash by default is because Flash has lots of security issues, > though on Linux the risk is -touch wood!- pretty theoretical. To block > trackers, I use the EFF's Privacy Badget plugin, which can be fine tuned > in a number of ways. For some reason, while it blocks almost all ads in > practice, it does seem to do so in a way that doesn't stop sites (like > Wired and Forbes) from showing me their content. > > Martijn. Forbes. Privacy Badger and ADBlock, I turn off Ad Block blocker at their request and then get 'lite add' version of their site for 30 days. Tolerable. I still block the about 19 trackers with Privacy Badger however. -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq