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Instead of document.cookie consider document.localStorage since there’s verbiage around showing a notice on your site if you use cookies, etc, for tracking purposes. At least with local storage, you aren’t using cookies :P
The law doesn't care whether it's a cookie or an equivalent.
The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230219020056/https://www.ic3.g...
I have said it years that adblocker is the best anti-virus these days.
I found it amusing that my proxy detected the "/ads/" in the URL and killed the connection automatically. Of course highlighting this fact that the presence of an adblocker is detectable, unfortunately only results in escalating the cat-and-mouse game further. I have also considered popularising a script that replaces the whole page's content with "JavaScript detected, please disable it to view this content and impro…
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I have said it years that adblocker is the best anti-virus these days.
I get miffed when corporations manage employee browsers and disable adblocker extensions.
I wish browsers could just provide a way to disable javascript after page `onload`. Perhaps only enables js when user clicks something.
setTimeout(() => {
// fuck up all future javascripts
setTimeout = setInterval = requestAnimationFrame = () => {};
Element.prototype.appendChild = () => { throw new Error("Blocked"); };
document.addEventListener = () => {};
window.addEventListener = () => {};
Object.defineProperty(document, "readyState", { get: () => { throw new Error("No JS"); } });
document.write = () => {};
// fuck up canvas
if(window.HTMLCanvasElement) HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.getContext=()=>null;
// fuck up webgl
if(window.WebGLRenderingContext) window.WebGLRenderingContext.prototype.getParameter=function(){e=>{throw new Error("Blocked")}};
// fuck up webgl2
if(window.WebGL2RenderingContext) window.WebGL2RenderingContext.prototype.getParameter=function(){e=>{throw new Error("Blocked")}};
// fuck up websockets
window.WebSocket=function(){e=>{throw new Error("Blocked")}}; window.EventSource=function(){e=>{throw new Error("Blocked")}};
// fuck up popups
window.open=()=>null;
// ...
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Now that I think of it, when a professional YouTuber shows their browser, more often than not, there is no ad-blocking. But as professional YouTubers, there is no way they are not aware of ad-blocking. I wonder if they actually watch the ads on purpose, even in private or if they turn their adblocker off just for the video, as not to give ideas to their viewers and potentially losing ad revenue.
A while back Linus Tech Tips said ad blockers are a form of unethical piracy. His audience accused him of spreading self-serving bullshit. Oddly, his position changed a few years later and he started promoting adblocking. The chance that he was using one the whole damn time? 100%
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I've had it happen to me exactly once in the past few years. And a simple refresh fixed it. Definitely an overstatement to say it's common.
Somewhat common if a site is being overloaded.
I wonder what the overlap between visitors to a site that would display this and visitors not already using an adblocker is. Then again I've seen developers with ads plastered all over their screens before, I'd like to believe it's a conscious decision on their part.