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> How many people actually disable their adblockers when sites don't allow you to access them if you have one enabled? It's just much easier to close the tab.

Some sites intentionally break if you're using an adblocker. It's really easy to argue to not use those sites.

But...

What about government sites? Government sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

What about bank sites? Bank sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

What about your work related sites? My employer's HR site doesn't work with strong ad blockers. Many of my employer's internal sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

Yeah it's much easier to just close the tab. Unless the site is literally required for your continued living.

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Anecdotally, I can't recall a single time my adblocker (uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus before that) ever interfered with any of my online banking websites, ANY government website, or employers' websites.

And if they ever do, well, most people only use a small number of such sites. Whitelisting them would be easy enough.

> What about bank sites? Bank sites don't work with strong ad blockers.

For these sites I use anonymous mode in a different browser.

I don't disable my adblocker. I wouldn't go walking around dark alleys blind drunk in Mexico City at 2:30 in the morning either.

If the site is not internal to your company, and it's broken, most reputable ad blocker lists will accept bug reports to fix it. EasyList has a forum specifically dedicated to doing this.

If it's internal to your company, just whitelist it. They already pay for your time, so it's really their business if they put stuff on their internal sites that ruins your productivity.

I have used a few different bank sites and they all work with ad blockers.

Depends on your bank and the definition of a strong ad blocker. Danish banks use a common authentication solution that is generally (always?) inserted as a third party iframe. If you use the uBO enhanced Easy mode [0] or stronger, it'll be blocked.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

Hmm, all the bank and government websites I've used work fine (so far) . I've also worked at many companies now, and I haven't had trouble with ad blockers there either.

I'm actually surprised how they could cause problems? Do you have specific examples?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277421

> I'm actually surprised how they could cause problems? Do you have specific examples?

1) use uMatrix and block all scripts and all third party sites

2) go to your favorite bank

3) if you're lucky, you'll get a warm welcome to enable javascript. i don't think that's reasonable, but just enable it to get moving.

4) after enabling javascript, see a few third party sites. some of them are "content delivery networks" (which IMO shouldn't be a thing, and absolutely shouldn't be a different gTLD), some of them are telemetry (hope you trust your bank to vacuum up only what they want), and some are services your bank tries to upsell you on (please sign up for our (third party) rewards to further monetize your purchase habits).

5) good luck trying to figure out which sites to trust

I try my best to send a polite email to sites that don't work but I need to use.

Thankfully, UK government sites don’t have this misfeature.

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