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by Exuma 3906 days ago
Ive been burned on this enough times where I know that any weird error that doesn't have an explanation, automatically turn off adblock. 9 times out of 10... works
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I would not recommend this as a default choice if you want to benefit from the security aspect of adblocking, as otherwise you might become too easily deceived into turning it off - along the same lines as those fake error message ads.

Since I have JavaScript disabled by default, I encounter plenty of such messages; but almost all of them I can safely ignore. It wouldn't surprise me if there are messages to the effect of "This site is not compatible with adblock, turn off your adblocker for a better experence" - and upon acting on such a message, the poor luser gets bombarded with all manner of popups and other crap. Incidentally, that's a similar experience to when I first started browsing with disabled JavaScript, and made me become much more wary of turning it on just because some site wants me to.

I'm referring to debugging my own stuff, not using other people's sites.
I thought it was standard to open up an incognito window with everything disabled when debugging.
I thought it was standard to assume everything I do is standard.
Yeah, that's non-standard behaviour.