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The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

I think it's their prerogative to say "either get served ads, become a paying member, or leave." I imagine they wont mourn the loss of someone who would have likely not brought them revenue in any form, ever.

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

I think it's their prerogative to say "either get served ads, become a paying member, or leave." I imagine they wont mourn the loss of someone who would have likely not brought them revenue in any form, ever.

That came off reading much more judgy than I had intended. I meant it's their prerogative in the same sense that serving the ads in first place was their prerogative, not that there is a moral imperative to listen when they do.

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be javascript. Disabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me.

Disabling 1st-party scripts in uBlock Origin got rid of it for me. I can't find this option. Where is it?

If you open up add-ons find uBlock Origin, press the "go to dashboard" button the first page has a bunch of checkboxes. At the bottom of the first group there is a check box called "I am an advanced user ..." Check that and now you have a mini uMatrix in your uBlock Origin menu.

Global block/allow is the left column, local (to the current domain) block/allow is the right column. I always globally block 3rd party scripts and frames and locally allow things like ajax.google.com when sites are borked.

Apparently now I need to start locally blocking 1st party scripts on sites too because of shenanigans like this.

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

If you have uBlock, advanced mode can block the script that puts up the adwall. Just click off the allowance of 3rd party scripts for the page.

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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post #3

I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

No problem here, using Chrome + Ublock Origin

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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I just got "ad walled" by wired, putting a huge paywall like thing in front of the text talking about ad blockers. Anybody seen things like that? Certainly won't click the next wired link.

Yup. Tried for a few seconds to add a custom blocking rule and then immediately left the page. I empathize with content creators, but this reeks of desperation.

I don't know. I took the two seconds to unblock them. How would you have implemented it to look less desperate?

Re: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

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I WANT TO SAY: thanks wired for the new anti-adblock campaign. You just saved me 10 minutes of my life reading about bee beheading hornets. Now back to programming.

Interesting. I didn't see anything like that. Maybe noscript = win?
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