So, as per trend against ad blockers, two of the major online news outlets have adopted the policy of showing a message to disable the ad blocker instead of showing the news content.
At least they show the steps to take for disabling the ad blocker for their websites.
They provide the steps for the AdBlock Plus ad blocker. I believe the steps would be similar for other ad blockers as well.
The main page of the news websites do open, but no other news article opens. All give the above message.
But, as they have targeted the AdBlock Plus ad blocker, I was intrigued enough to know more about this ad blocker. The AdBlock Plus website (https://adblockplus.org/) shows that the ad blocker is open source, GPLv3 license. It is available for at least 9 browsers. And, it also provides its own AdBlock Browser.
In addition, unobtrusive ads are not blocked by default. So, what kind of ads do these websites want to show?
Does an ad leave cookies? Track your activity on other websites? Is basically a spyware?
Hmm, if yes, then these news websites want us to install spyware on our systems.
So, what can we do? For me, the option was clear. Just leave these websites. There are many other news outlets that have better news articles than the tabloid type articles present on these spyware websites.
A good list of news websites available in India is given on this website: http://www.w3newspapers.com/india/
At least they show the steps to take for disabling the ad blocker for their websites.
They provide the steps for the AdBlock Plus ad blocker. I believe the steps would be similar for other ad blockers as well.
The main page of the news websites do open, but no other news article opens. All give the above message.
But, as they have targeted the AdBlock Plus ad blocker, I was intrigued enough to know more about this ad blocker. The AdBlock Plus website (https://adblockplus.org/) shows that the ad blocker is open source, GPLv3 license. It is available for at least 9 browsers. And, it also provides its own AdBlock Browser.
In addition, unobtrusive ads are not blocked by default. So, what kind of ads do these websites want to show?
Does an ad leave cookies? Track your activity on other websites? Is basically a spyware?
Hmm, if yes, then these news websites want us to install spyware on our systems.
So, what can we do? For me, the option was clear. Just leave these websites. There are many other news outlets that have better news articles than the tabloid type articles present on these spyware websites.
A good list of news websites available in India is given on this website: http://www.w3newspapers.com/india/
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