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by afavour 1016 days ago
Eh. You can already detect ad blockers and the vast majority of sites don’t bother to do so. I’d be surprised if this was much different.
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More and more sites are detecting and blocking adblockers. I’ve encountered so many articles on my phone recently that are completely unreadable. I click a link from mastodon or reddit or wherever and all I get is a full page unskipable “disable your Adblock to continue” message. And then I click back, and scroll past. Never getting to read past the headline
I'm surprised how many sites now have "you seem to be using an ad blocker" popups. Many of them still let you see the content after clicking away a nag, but it's only a step away from fully disabling. (uBlock Origin does a good job hiding these so I mostly don't notice it; but with NextDNS as an ad blocker it's a big problem.)