"You are using an ad blocker. Please disable it in order to enhance your browsing experience."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Right!

[samnsara]

1. i know! i crack up every time it pops up...

[AllyCat]

2. And when I read the fine print,

It flat out says they want to target ads to me. No. Just no.

[DBoon]

5. No, they want to target malware to you

Third party ads are a notorious malware delivery mechanism.

[Dr. Strange]

8. Bingo!

They're not adblockers anymore. They're straight-up malware protection now.

[DBoon]

9. "If you want to read our article, please let us infect your computer first"

nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I wish they'd be a bit more honest about it:

"We know you're using an ad blocker. We make money from ads and we want you to see ours. So here's the deal: If you don't disable your ad blocker we won't let you read our content. Capisce?"

[yallerdawg]

4. Awww.

[ADX]

6. Whenever that message pops up on a site I'm visiting...

...I leave it immediately unless it allows me to continue without turning my ad blocker off.

Fuck an "enhanced browsing experience"...

[matt819]

7. Sure, right.

And they won't leave the ad blocker nagging to a one-time scold. It follows you with every page.

As for the browsing experience, in recent days I've noticed that recipe sites won't let you print unless you disable the ad blocking. So I pause it, print, return it to enable, and leave the site. Maybe that's the way they want it. After all, I'm taking up bandwidth and they're making no money off of me. I'm okay with that. I'll just wait for the ad blocker software to block the nagging.

[DBoon]

10. I would just take a screenshot with Snipping Tool and print the snip

nt

[Staph]

14. I cut and paste into a notepad.

I have literally hundreds of recipes, and I never have to disable ad blocking. The website address goes at the bottom for proper attribution.

I also make changes to the recipes after I test them.

[SeattleVet]

11. Pi-Hole! With just a very few $ and a little tech savvy...

this open-source goodie avoids the problem entirely. No need to even run an ad-blocker anymore, since the requests to download the ads never go out to the sites that serve them. As far as the site you are visiting knows, you got everything that the advertisers were going to send, but, in actuality, the ads never even reached your router as they were not requested. If youj install it at your router all ads are avoided on all devices on your local network.

https://pi-hole.net

You can set this up with as little as a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero, a cable, and a power wall wart, and a little tiny bit of tech know-how. The Pi is set up as a DNS server (the bit that looks up the IP addresses and essentially acts as a phone book), and has a database of known ad servers. Requests to those particular servers are just dropped.

I have all of the bits I need on order right now to get this set up. There is a very good help/discussion forum at the site that provides a lot of assistance for people in getting their own Pi-Hole set up.

[matt819]

12. Sadly, not for Windows. (nt)

[hunter]

13. It works fine for Windows.

Pi-hole is a little machine you put between your internet connection and whatever your main computers are -- Windows, Apple, Linux... doesn't matter. The little machine is a Raspberry Pi, which costs a little over $50 once you add the power supply and case.