Stolen from 4chan. What do you think?
I imagine this is why the page specific off button in uBlockOrigin is really big; to allow more of the pseudo-random menu detectivery that happens in this situation to find it instead of disabling uBO completely in the settings.
But this theory kind of insinuates people who don’t care about not being advertised to are dumb (or maybe I just thunk that, because I think you have to try knowing things about browsers to be smart).
comparisons like these reveal how often companies take advantage of people through rhetoric, when the majority dont know much
True about Javascript since almost all webpages nowadays use it and all use cloudflare as well. But since when does the Cloudflare verification need you to disable adblocker? It never happens with me. I am using Ublock Origins.
It doesn’t. Some webpages have redirects that instruct you to enable javascript, disable ad blockers and disable vpn. But that makes the ‘joke’ fall flat.
I wonder if anyone even disables ad blockers when they see the actual message because even if I might enable js, I’ve never, not once, disabled ad blocker or vpn at a website’s behest.
For me, this is evidence that I am navigating to a page that I don’t need to navigate to.
And if you need to use the site?
Most alternative pages nowadays use the same techniques as wellm
now i kmow AI is awful for just about everything, but one thing they’ve got going for them is that they may be able to summarize any page on the internet and bypass all manner of restrictions. alternatively there’s also the google web archive which shares googlebot findings (often whitelisted) or other archival sites, or reader mode
i absolutely agree. Sometimes I am wondering why the AI can access all pages (even local ones or open models hosted on other servers), but I am marked as a robot every time 😅 Who’s the robot?
Yeah I’d rather just load a different page.
Not disabling my adblocker for any reason.
Plenty of other pages on the www : )
Or it’s time to check the way back machine or archive.is
I’ve had that happen to me on archive.is 🙃
not ever using that site anymore strategy no %
You fail checks with an adblocker? I have never had that happen with Ublock origin or Adnausium.
No no. I think what this prompt is doing, is dishonestly presenting a fake “stuck” captcha check and dishonestly leading the user to believe it’s their ad blocker that is to blame, thus tricking them with this “strategy” to disable it.
I have adblockers, private DNS, and other tools enabled and have never once failed a Cloudflare check. Google recaptcha on the other hand asks me about motorcycles, traffic lights and busses literally dozens of times in a row.
Google recaptcha on the other hand asks me about motorcycles, traffic lights and busses literally dozens of times in a row
I bet you’re using a firefox based browser. There was a brief period years ago when google captchas worked blazingly fast on firefox. This was shortly after mozilla very publicly denounced google for intentionally sabotaging firefox users.
I found it depends on your user agent rather than ad blocker…
They’re both the same picture.
see, the moment that i see an ad is when i re-enable my adblock. at the latest.
If a site doesn’t work with adblock enables I don’t use it. I never turn that shit off. There is nothing on the internet I need to look at badly enough to do that. If the entire internet stopped working with adblockers I’d stop using it.
I just enable captcha.cloudflare, not all JS
I do not bother myself with websites that use cloudflare anymore.
So like, 75% of the web?
Unironically, yes. If there was no alternative, I access the archived version. This is not by choice, my browser for some reason cannot process cloudflare captchas.
reasonable tbf
Don’t think I’ve had an adblocker mess with the verification, but I often have to green-light a few things for cloudfare (or other verifier) in uMatrix.
uMatrix was awesome. It’s a massive shame it didn’t get any more updates, because it started breaking important sites (like bank authentication) for me just by the addon being enabled even if I turned it off from its own toggle, so I had to switch to NoScript, which is simply worse (far clunkier interface and consistently fails to show all domains).
