Why even view pirated low-quality content, hidden behind a paywall? I mean, that's what too many newspapers and magazines offer. Unfortunately.
I'll pop in to defend the Winnipeg Free Press as one of Canada's few independent papers. They still have their own journalists breaking stories.
Finally, some reading material devoid of Winnipeg!
Because I want to suffer, apparently. 😂
If you arent already, highly recommend ublock origin. Great broswer extension thats pretty much required to use the intermet nowadays if you dont want to pull your hair out.
Though some of theae websites still have popus like this built in unfortunately. But Ublock helps a lot.
I was already using ubo and Adguard, but these damn popups still came up. I'm going to tweak my filter list to see if I'm missing something.
If it's a site I visit frequently, I tend to manually block undesirable elements. But this was a one-off.
Fyi you don't need two adblockers on the same browser. They use the same lists anyways, you're using double the resources and improving load times for no real benefit
Yes, I do agree.
However, I find that the element blocker in UBO is better than AdGuard, and it gives more control over blocking things like remote fonts. Since I run AdGuard system-wide, I just leave it on for the entire browser.
Adguard does create issues where certain sites simply will not work, so I have to disable Adguard, and I'll leave UBO on to block any ads or trackers that get through as a result.
It works for me. 😂👍
Understood. It's fine to not follow the "best practices" if our use case requires otherwise. The important thing is to be aware of it!
It is a good reminder, though. I'm going to have to reevaluate some of my add-ons and settings. I prefer things to be minimalist, and perhaps I really am overlapping features unnecessarily.
If you are on Firefox, the ghostery addon is really nice as well. It blocks ads, trackers, and cookies, plus gives you information about what’s actually on the site (what the cookies are, how many it wants to shove on you and why, etc.)
It won’t block all the popups, but it does auto-decline some stuff, so you don’t get cookie notifications, for example.
Never-Consent
Clicks you out of all consent dialogues in favor of never tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your globally active privacy advocate towards content providers.
I've used Ghostery before, for a while, actually! I love the extra details it provides.
Since I have a paid Adguard account, I use that system wide. UBO is left on because I like the element blocker it uses.
Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.
The subscribe one will probably still be there though.
Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.
Well, shit! I just installed it on a secondary, clean browser and did a before and after. What do you know? No popup when using Ghostery!
Now I have to figure out if it's a list that isn't enabled in the other blockers, or if they just suck. LOL
I think it’s just the way the extension works. Not really a list, but the extension is designed to click the decline link on anything that would lead to setting tracking cookies, like those notification requests.
Either way, I’m glad it worked!
An interesting thing to note is that I'm also seeing that my browser is asking whether to allow notifications from the site or not, rather than the site asking directly.
I'll have to do more testing. Ideally, I'd like to only use Adguard, since that's what I use across multiple devices. I'm sure I can find the filter list/settings that produce the same result as Ghostery... hopefully. LOL
Pretty sure you can disable that in the browser itself though.
Yes, it can be disabled, but what I'm saying is that with my previous addon setup, the browser message didn't even show up - only the website gave this popup about receiving notifications. In hindsight, it seems like broken browser behaviour, and it's working as it should now.
From the Thumbnail it looked like a Adobe Photoshop Error Message.
Oh, this causes my control+w reflex.
I'll just assume the article had nothing worthwhile to read. Thanks for sparing my time!
If you haven’t already, would highly recommend looking into Unpaywall! Really helpful when it comes to viewing articles that require you to pay a subscription or sign up before viewing. Doesn’t always work but it gets a good amount! Plus it’s open source which is always a added bonus
Why even view pirated low-quality content, hidden behind a paywall? I mean, that's what too many newspapers and magazines offer. Unfortunately.
I'll pop in to defend the Winnipeg Free Press as one of Canada's few independent papers. They still have their own journalists breaking stories.
Finally, some reading material devoid of Winnipeg!
Because I want to suffer, apparently. 😂
If you arent already, highly recommend ublock origin. Great broswer extension thats pretty much required to use the intermet nowadays if you dont want to pull your hair out.
Though some of theae websites still have popus like this built in unfortunately. But Ublock helps a lot.
I was already using ubo and Adguard, but these damn popups still came up. I'm going to tweak my filter list to see if I'm missing something.
If it's a site I visit frequently, I tend to manually block undesirable elements. But this was a one-off.
Fyi you don't need two adblockers on the same browser. They use the same lists anyways, you're using double the resources and improving load times for no real benefit
Yes, I do agree.
However, I find that the element blocker in UBO is better than AdGuard, and it gives more control over blocking things like remote fonts. Since I run AdGuard system-wide, I just leave it on for the entire browser.
Adguard does create issues where certain sites simply will not work, so I have to disable Adguard, and I'll leave UBO on to block any ads or trackers that get through as a result.
It works for me. 😂👍
Understood. It's fine to not follow the "best practices" if our use case requires otherwise. The important thing is to be aware of it!
It is a good reminder, though. I'm going to have to reevaluate some of my add-ons and settings. I prefer things to be minimalist, and perhaps I really am overlapping features unnecessarily.
If you are on Firefox, the ghostery addon is really nice as well. It blocks ads, trackers, and cookies, plus gives you information about what’s actually on the site (what the cookies are, how many it wants to shove on you and why, etc.)
It won’t block all the popups, but it does auto-decline some stuff, so you don’t get cookie notifications, for example.
https://www.ghostery.com/ghostery-ad-blocker
I've used Ghostery before, for a while, actually! I love the extra details it provides.
Since I have a paid Adguard account, I use that system wide. UBO is left on because I like the element blocker it uses.
Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.
The subscribe one will probably still be there though.
Well, shit! I just installed it on a secondary, clean browser and did a before and after. What do you know? No popup when using Ghostery!
Now I have to figure out if it's a list that isn't enabled in the other blockers, or if they just suck. LOL
I think it’s just the way the extension works. Not really a list, but the extension is designed to click the decline link on anything that would lead to setting tracking cookies, like those notification requests.
Either way, I’m glad it worked!
An interesting thing to note is that I'm also seeing that my browser is asking whether to allow notifications from the site or not, rather than the site asking directly.
I'll have to do more testing. Ideally, I'd like to only use Adguard, since that's what I use across multiple devices. I'm sure I can find the filter list/settings that produce the same result as Ghostery... hopefully. LOL
Pretty sure you can disable that in the browser itself though.
Yes, it can be disabled, but what I'm saying is that with my previous addon setup, the browser message didn't even show up - only the website gave this popup about receiving notifications. In hindsight, it seems like broken browser behaviour, and it's working as it should now.
From the Thumbnail it looked like a Adobe Photoshop Error Message.
Oh, this causes my control+w reflex.
I'll just assume the article had nothing worthwhile to read. Thanks for sparing my time!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
I had it running. I also had Adguard (system wide) enabled. I need to tweak my filters 😂
Bypass Paywalls Clean
Using it on FF.
If you haven’t already, would highly recommend looking into Unpaywall! Really helpful when it comes to viewing articles that require you to pay a subscription or sign up before viewing. Doesn’t always work but it gets a good amount! Plus it’s open source which is always a added bonus