Chrome's built-in Adblocker launching on the 15th of February

@alcy - It's a little complicated to give you an exact number on how many people are using an adblocker that hit our system. The reason is different adblockers work different ways. And also spiders are flagged in the same group as well. But my silence, was because I went to sleep.

@MapleDots - I was on a website the other day and their login box wasn't showing up, I couldn't figure out why. It was because I was using one of my browsers that had an adblocker turned on. This website had named their login box something with "ads", because they knew that if you had an ad blocker turned on you wouldn't see it. I thought it was pretty funny, that the only way you could login to your account is if you turned off your ad blocker.

Donny

Donny said:

@alcy - It's a little complicated to give you an exact number on how many people are using an adblocker that hit our system. The reason is different adblockers work different ways. And also spiders are flagged in the same group as well. But my silence, was because I went to sleep.

@MapleDots - I was on a website the other day and their login box wasn't showing up, I couldn't figure out why. It was because I was using one of my browsers that had an adblocker turned on. This website had named their login box something with "ads", because they knew that if you had an ad blocker turned on you wouldn't see it. I thought it was pretty funny, that the only way you could login to your account is if you turned off your ad blocker.

Donny

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ok.. but that's not the impression I got from your 1 year old post herE:

Yes, we do keep track of it. Who wouldn't. It's just not a perfect science. Let me explain why. If you have AdBlock Plus installed, we have some scripts that load on the page that tell us whether somebody has AdBlock Plus installed or not. But those same scripts can't detect Ublock, because Ublock doesn't load either of them. It's like a game of cat and mouse.

So it's no as simple as just saying this loaded and this didn't, so they are using an adblocker.

Donny

Donny said:

@MapleDots - I was on a website the other day and their login box wasn't showing up, I couldn't figure out why. It was because I was using one of my browsers that had an adblocker turned on. This website had named their login box something with "ads", because they knew that if you had an ad blocker turned on you wouldn't see it. I thought it was pretty funny, that the only way you could login to your account is if you turned off your ad blocker.

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Definitely smart but I would just whitelist the element and be past that in two shakes.
Once reported the adblockers will quickly adapt to that.

Back and fourth, cat and mouse but the average person won't see it because the adblockers update automatically.

I hope google does this right, at some point we need a peace treaty between advertisers and consumers.

MapleDots said:

I hope google does this right, at some point we need a peace treaty between advertisers and consumers.

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This won't be possible. If I'm anything to go by, ad supported content won't be a viable business model. Nothing will be resolved until users can fund content with anonymous payments.

NoBS said:

Nothing will be resolved until users can fund content with anonymous payments

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It is an interesting idea, a new browser ("BRAVE", brave dot com) tries to implement this:

"Brave is on a mission to fix the web by giving users a safer, faster and better browsing experience – while growing support for content creators through a new attention-based ecosystem of rewards.. Brave is open source, and built by a team of privacy focused, performance oriented pioneers of the web, founded by the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla." (quote end)

It is based on chromium code, and is still in beta. For example, built-in adblock still allows some ads which are normally blocked by others, and it is not configurable (or maybe I did not find how to improve adblock). For example it allowed escrow.com banners to be shown on one of domaining blogs, something that I personally do not need or want to see. Also a few big "skyscraper" banners were allowed somewhere else.... The project looks promising though. And it is under active development. Anonymous payments to publishers are already possible.

P.S. Google ads on parked domains are all blocked with brave browser adfilter. Bad for us the domainers, good for endusers. And, as expected, any website can be whitelisted to show ads

There is a company
https://www.seven.com/android-adblocker-download.php

They don't stop at ad blocking within the browser, they take off all ads in android including the ones in apps.
A bit time consuming to set up but I have been using them on and off for a couple of years and it actually works well. So well that there were booted of the play store by google but they have direct download links.

I don't use them so much anymore because I mostly use firefox with ublock origin on android now. Keeps things more private and when watching youtube it is a completely ad free experience.

That said I use chrome and ublock origin on my desktop pc because I like to whitelist the websites I visit most often. If they have a few ads that bother me I just zap those elements and allow the non intrusive ones to load.

So for me I do both, I whitelist my faves but zap out any flashing madness.

tonyk2000 said:

It is an interesting idea, a new browser ("BRAVE", brave dot com) tries to implement this

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Sounds promising. Those BAT/ether tokens need to be on throw-away wallets, and available everywhere in physical form like itunes cards, but not require registration. If those three conditions are not met, BAT is 100% failed. Something like a prepaid cc or gift card with pin and account number, and the interface for managing wallets might be built into the browser. When a website requests payment the browser can prompt the user to authorise the charge.

Just thought I would let you know that uBlock blocks 100% of everything on an epik page.

Nothing but the address in the address bar is visible on a market page

lots of crypto companies trying to solve ad blocking by paying micropayments to read the content....times are a changing...

toughdomains said:

lots of crypto companies trying to solve ad blocking by paying micropayments to read the content....times are a changing...

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could you please explain more about that.. thanks