Daily Wail and ad blockers

[northernladuk]

So it looks like they won't allow content to show when you've an ad blocker on. Bearing in mind my ad blocker is showing over 50 hits per page I don't think I'll be turning it off thank you. The site is a nightmare for ads and I've not been at a client where it's been either blocked or a nightmare to read.

That said I do like a good peruse from time to time. Anyway around this? Seems like a very bold move by them tbh.

[scooterscot]

Works fine in Brave browser with not a single ad.

[Hobosapien]

Anyway around this?

I use a hosts file (MVPS) that redirects all the known adservers and other dodgy sources to a localhost IP address, so I just get whitespace instead of the adverts. Presumably the website (including Daily Mail) fall back to assuming the adservice is currently unavailable (which it is ) and show the rest of the content.

I don't bother with adblockers to avoid the hassle of sites blocking adblockers as you've found.

Additionally I do this inside a VM so I can accept all cookies and clear them down regularly.

I surf whitelisted sites that require login, such as CUK, outside of the VM.

Works for me.

[NotAllThere]

Switching off javascript works for some sites.

[Zigenare]

Not reading the Wail works even better!

[BrilloPad]

Not reading the Wail works even better!

Only one reason to visit. Having accidentally clicked on the guardian opinion page. It restores the balance.

[Zigenare]

Only one reason to visit. Having accidentally clicked on the guardian opinion page. It restores the balance.

A likely story!

[b0redom]

I use a hosts file (MVPS) that redirects all the known adservers and other dodgy sources to a localhost IP address, so I just get whitespace instead of the adverts. Presumably the website (including Daily Mail) fall back to assuming the adservice is currently unavailable (which it is ) and show the rest of the content.

I don't bother with adblockers to avoid the hassle of sites blocking adblockers as you've found.

Additionally I do this inside a VM so I can accept all cookies and clear them down regularly.

I surf whitelisted sites that require login, such as CUK, outside of the VM.

Works for me.

I do similar but at network level using PiHole. You can run it in a container on your laptop if you're out and about.

[woohoo]

I use uBlock Origin for Chrome and DM seems ok. I mean its still full of tulipe but the expected tulipe.

[Scruff]

I do similar but at network level using PiHole. You can run it in a container on your laptop if you're out and about.

Ditto. Raspi-4.