Forbes.com (and others) stop on ad blockers now

[Ken g6]

Wired is doing the same thing now. NoScript bypasses it.

 

[pcslookout]

Wired is doing the same thing now. NoScript bypasses it.

Thought it was noscript!

 

[xgsound]

Since ads are a main vector for Malware I'm going to avoid those sites as long as I can.

Jim

 

[PowerEngineer]

I was about to say, for uBlock Origin, i was able to go to forbes without issue. it gave me the 5 second ad thing and then continue to site.

This was going direct, and not from a link to the site

Me too. uBlock Origin and Firefox.

 

[sm625]

The site is dead as far as I'm concerned. The question is, why cant anyone write an adblocker that can circumvent this crap? It cant be that hard to do now that so many sites are resorting to this garbage.

 

[stlc8tr]

Same here using ad block plus... Goes right in after a few seconds.

Which version of Adblock Plus?

I'm using 1.10.1 on Chrome and Forbes detects the adblocking and won't allow entry.

 

[bruceb]

Just checked it here on Firefox 42 and AdBlock Plus 2.7.2 and the site does detect that an ad blocker is being used. It will not load unless the ad block is disabled. You would think that the coders for AdBlock and others would put codes in them, so that websites can not detect that they are enabled.

 

[Ketchup]

Me too. uBlock Origin and Firefox.

uBlock is blocking the site for me as well (in Firefox). It seems like it lets you through a few times, then "that's it."

 

[mikeymikec]

She needs to download more RAM. Problem solved.

Rubbish! What she needs is a RAM defragmenter.

I've heard that lining unused RAM slots with tin foil helps too.

 

[LPCTech]

Lol I wonder who thought it would be a good idea to do this..

"Hey I know! If someone has an adblocker running we wont let them go to the site. We will force them to lower their security!."

Its too bad about how those sites stopped existing. :whiste:

 

[PliotronX]

 

[SMOGZINN]

I just quick checked Forbes.
They offer an "ad-light experience now."

Which they will have just long enough to get most of us whitelist them, then they open their ad network back up to any 2 bit ad server that wants to pay them more then average, because they are not 'maximizing their advertising revenue' otherwise.

 

[Dude111]

Can anyone get to this link w/o scripts?

www.forbes.com/fdc/mediaresourcecenter/newsletters.html


I just tried and it loaded quite fast!! (I always have scripts disabled (99.9% of the time))

 

[TheGardener]

Last week the NY Times joined the club of go away if you use an ad blocker. The NY Times posts a message in a window, when you enter the site, having your ad blocker enabled.

“The best things in life aren't free," reads one message that users will see. “You currently have an ad blocker installed. Advertising helps us fund our journalism. To continue to enjoy the Times, please support us in one of the following ways.”

While the approaches can vary in tone, the Times’ appeal is more direct, requesting users who are using an ad-blocker either exempt the site from the service – a process known as “whitelisting” – or sign up for a digital subscription.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology...imes-is-using-online-ads-to-fight-ad-blockers

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ny-times-fights-ad-blockers/

Funny thing is that a NY Times article recently ran which recommends ad blockers for saving extending battery life on a smartphone. Good thing for the author to get that article in before the change over.

"When browsing the web, your smartphone also burns through power when it downloads mobile ads on websites," the guide says. "Installing an ad blocker will greatly extend battery life." The guide then confirms that typical battery tests on both an iPhone 6s and a Moto X Pure become much more efficient with software such as 1Blocker and Ghostery installed. The guide doesn't clarify anything about blocking specific kinds of ads for battery gains.

http://arstechnica.com/business/201...-ad-blockers-after-ceo-mulls-banning-readers/

 

[Jeff7]

Dilbert has a new one too: The ads and content are served right from the same server, and the filenames appear to be some sort of hashed character string, and aren't in their own subfolders either.

Ad: 5f6947c000b77f53f157e2b400a3313
Content: ed4e0dc0c1f90133442e005056a9545d

L...
Funny thing is that a NY Times article recently ran which recommends ad blockers for saving extending battery life on a smartphone. Good thing for the author to get that article in before the change over.

"When browsing the web, your smartphone also burns through power when it downloads mobile ads on websites," the guide says. "Installing an ad blocker will greatly extend battery life." The guide then confirms that typical battery tests on both an iPhone 6s and a Moto X Pure become much more efficient with software such as 1Blocker and Ghostery installed. The guide doesn't clarify anything about blocking specific kinds of ads for battery gains.

http://arstechnica.com/business/201...-ad-blockers-after-ceo-mulls-banning-readers/

Heck, some ad-heavy pages could bog down a 20GHz Core i7 being powered by its own Mr. Fusion reactor.

"Our eye tracking software indicates that you have only spent 93% of your time looking at ads on this page. Please either look at more ads, or buy a subscription."

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yea, you would think in this age of everyone reports everything they wouldn't be pushing away potential people. It's minorly annoying that I have to back track and hit one of the other 10 sites reporting the same usually pointless article.

 

[lxskllr]

Last week the NY Times joined the club of go away if you use an ad blocker. The NY Times posts a message in a window, when you enter the site, having your ad blocker enabled.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology...imes-is-using-online-ads-to-fight-ad-blockers

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ny-times-fights-ad-blockers/

Funny thing is that a NY Times article recently ran which recommends ad blockers for saving extending battery life on a smartphone. Good thing for the author to get that article in before the change over.

http://arstechnica.com/business/201...-ad-blockers-after-ceo-mulls-banning-readers/

Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.

The tainted ads may have exposed tens of thousands of people over the past 24 hours alone, according to a blog post published Monday by Trend Micro. The new campaign started last week when "Angler," a toolkit that sells exploits for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and other widely used Internet software, started pushing laced banner ads through a compromised ad network.
"

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...of-malicious-ads-spreading-crypto-ransomware/

Yup, I'm gonna disable my blocker post-haste

 

[Jeff7]

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...of-malicious-ads-spreading-crypto-ransomware/

Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.

The tainted ads may have exposed tens of thousands of people over the past 24 hours alone, according to a blog post published Monday by Trend Micro. The new campaign started last week when "Angler," a toolkit that sells exploits for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and other widely used Internet software, started pushing laced banner ads through a compromised ad network.
"

Yup, I'm gonna disable my blocker post-haste

Like entering a B&M store with a notice posted:
"Flu-infected employees are present in store and are likely to sneeze on you. Please do not attempt to evade store employees. If you are found to be avoiding sneezing employees you will be asked to leave."


Oh, and the full notice is posted inside a toilet tank in the employee restroom.
The notice on the front door only states that you will be asked to leave if you avoid their friendly employees.

 

[JEDIYoda]

boohoo......

 

[SMOGZINN]

Yea, you would think in this age of everyone reports everything they wouldn't be pushing away potential people. It's minorly annoying that I have to back track and hit one of the other 10 sites reporting the same usually pointless article.

Has the NYT done any investigative reporting in the last 10 years that was not taken from the AP? I thought all they did was fluff articles, advertising, and opinion pieces barely disguised as news.

 

[TeknoBug]

I can't navigate Cinemaclock.com with adblock anymore lol

 

[ultimatebob]

I was mad about this for a minute, and then realized that 90% of the stuff I read on Forbes was crap. I'm better off not wasting my time with that site.

 

[Ketchup]

Just tried to read an article on TweakTown. Not with the adblocker enabled. And they are terrible adds too. One is a popup that takes over the page, and one is making the page reload about every 10 seconds.

 

[bruceb]

I do not want ads slowing down my computer until they load. Also it is very possible that some ads may be infected. And you may not even need to click them to get in trouble. These are some of the reasons people use ad blockers. The coders at AdBlock Plus should modify it to that the web pages think they are loading correctly, even though the ads are blocked.

 

[balloonshark]

Just tried to read an article on TweakTown. Not with the adblocker enabled. And they are terrible adds too. One is a popup that takes over the page, and one is making the page reload about every 10 seconds.

They haven't allowed adblockers for a while now. What ticks me off is they are listed on asrock's site. When I built my last pc their site had good info about my mb.