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AdBlocker disabling strategy
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Stolen from 4chan. What do you think?
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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For me, this is evidence that I am navigating to a page that I don't need to navigate to.
Sadly, all of the small shops in my country for electronics and hobby stuff all have these pages (you don't need to disable your adblocker for cloudflare challenges) because of AI. They didn't have them a year and a half ago.
Ai companies have been DDOSing all small websites so badly that they have to use this (or Anubis) in order to actually have a usable website for actual humans.
Yeah I'd rather just load a different page.
Not disabling my adblocker for any reason.
Honestly on ublock for most websites it’s pretty easy to just delete the “turn off your adblocker” popup. Some websites genuinely won’t work with an adblocker on though unfortunately.
I do this first. If it doesn't work then I like those above your comment just go elsewhere. If they are the only one then I wait for it to show up on an archive site. If I actually need it then I break out the day job skills and write up custom adblock scripts to bypass their detection. I'll spend hours doing it out of spite. Then I write up scripts that clear my cache and refresh the page over and over and over when I'm not using my PC to drive up their hosting costs.
Plenty of other pages on the www : )
Or it's time to check the way back machine or archive.is
Archive.is is the worst offender for this. The only page I can't get to load, just keeps showing the goddamn cloudflare and refreshing back to it.
I've had that happen to me on archive.is 🙃
And if you need to use the site?
Most alternative pages nowadays use the same techniques as wellm
You find a bypass script that is anti-adblock detection. If still? Who cares it will show up somewhere else soon. If you need it now even though I doubt your use of the word need here then up to you but I've never had to go this far.
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?