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Thursday, 6 October 2016
quote [ More and more sites are putting mechanisms in place to foil Ad Blockers. While many only use a "shame banner" it is getting to the point where you can get to content without disabling the tool. ]
The ones that annoyed me the most were eCommerce sites - Best Buy being the example that comes to mind. The very purpose of the ENTIRE. FUCKING. SITE. is to sell me something. I am going there looking for specific things I am interested in. Why the fuck do they insist on having additional advertising?!?
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 12:37pm GMT on 6th October
I just went to Bestbuy.com and I get the little drop-down overlay that I closed, and a bottom-window thing saying I should log in to save my searches. Other than that, I see their departments listed and I can type into their search box.
What are you seeing that makes it unusable? If you're getting more ads than that, it sounds like you might have something evil installed on your browser that's serving you bonus ads.
HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 12:38pm GMT on 6th October
The only "block" things I have are Nod32 Antivirus and Chrome's built-in popup blocker.
I just went to Bestbuy.com and I get the little drop-down overlay that I closed, and a bottom-window thing saying I should log in to save my searches. Other than that, I see their departments listed and I can type into their search box.
What are you seeing that makes it unusable? If you're getting more ads than that, it sounds like you might have something evil installed on your browser that's serving you bonus ads.
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 12:37pm GMT on 6th October [Score:1 Insightful]
The only "block" things I have are Nod32 Antivirus and Chrome's built-in popup blocker.
I just went to Bestbuy.com and I get the little drop-down overlay that I closed, and a bottom-window thing saying I should log in to save my searches. Other than that, I see their departments listed and I can type into their search box.
What are you seeing that makes it unusable? If you're getting more ads than that, it sounds like you might have something evil installed on your browser that's serving you bonus ads.
I can only describe the experience as awful. Sites that I have visited daily, which did have minimal advertising shown, are suddenly crowded with garbage, some based on Amazon searches, some based on some alternate reality where I give a shit about wrinkles, grey hair and the Kardashians.
Crowded to the point where I had to make an effort to find the actual content.