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F You Wired.

"Here's the thing with ad blockers."

I'm not using any ad blocker! I'm not letting you run scripts in my browser. Why do you need to run scripts to show a static magazine article, with ads or not?

You aren't getting my dollar, but you would have gotten some impressions ($$$) and I would have read the article if you didn't act like a retard with your website.

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Funny enough, using uBlock Origin, I actually can read the article.

* requests blocked on this page 10 or 23% * domains connected 13 out of 22

Yeah I'm using both Ghostery and uBlock Origin and can totally read the article. :P

Seriously, just stick this in front of most sites/articles: http://www.readability.com/m?url=

And here it is in bookmarklet form javascript:void(window.location.href='http://www.readability.com/m?url='+window.location.href)

I get a "Readability was unable to parse this page" error when I plug in the submitted Wired article.

Excellent tip

You can inspect a page. It might have a (div id="veil"). I wonder what would happen if you delete that element.

Yeah felt the same thing. Turned off the adblocker, still won't load because it wants to load a ton of privacy invading scripts to track everything about you. Yeah it's fine, your article might be interesting, but it's not that interesting. Get a Google cached version if I really want to read it.

If you're not running scripts then you are effectively blocking ads even if that wasn't your intent. So your impressions were not generating any direct revenue and were likely not even being measured by analytics and counted as a page view.

It is possible to have ads that require no js.

And even if you did require js (for e.g. registering impressions), loading it from the same domain would make a lot more of us ok with it.

Sure but that rules out most kinds of ads. Even contracting directly with clients to show their ads, the client is often going to want to run the ads through a third party server so they can easily track all the different campaign they're running and check that the publisher is providing as many impressions as promised.

I think basically you'd end up with a lot of sponsored content and "Brought to you by..." type sponsorships interwoven in the site so they cannot easily be blocked.

I'm using NoScript with GNU IceCat and I don't see any message. I also use SpyBlock (which IceCat comes with) and Privacy Badger; I tried disabling both of the latter two, and still didn't receive the message.

The script detecting adblockers can't fire if you have scripts turned off :)

They could just have the overlay default-on and use a script to remove it, or stick it in a noscript tag, but that's another order of dickishness I've never seen outside of local newspapers, who sometimes put a meta redirect in their noscript tags for this precise purpose...

There's always been a delay in Wired blocking me, so I always just print the page to a PDF and read away.

Makes me feel like I'm sticking it to the man.

Same here, not using an Ad blocker - just using Ghostery.

Reading mode in Firefox saves the day.

> act like a retard

Cut it out.

You're always going to get heavily downvoted for stuff like this.

It's probably better to silently downvote it.

I'm not going to self-censor for fear of downvotes.

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