Cruz, Jaime wrote:
I'm getting tired of all of these sites that refuse to display their contents until I disable my Ad Blocker(s). Does anyone know of a "Stealth" Ad Blocker that blocks ads, but can't be detected by the websites? Something that signals to the server that the ad was displayed but in reality was thrown into a bit bucket? Surely SOMEONE has come up with something like that by now?
Consider adding the NoScript extension. The way any particular site is able to tell whether you have an ad blocker running or not is via scripting. If the script can't run, then it can't check to see if you have an ad blocker running, and it can't complain about your ad blocker.
On my own use of NoScript, I use it fairly aggressively, where the default for scripts is that they have to ask permission to run. There are a handful of sites and scripting hosts that I trust sufficiently to permanently whitelist, but for the majority of scripting hosts (especially ones that I don't visit frequently), they get temporary whitelisting, only if I need them to get to the content that I want. Among other things, I don't even permanently whitelist google, and GoogleAnalytics gets enabled, only if it's essential. In the same way, I have FaceBook permanently blacklisted, and I never enable -- I don't use FaceBook, and I don't see any reason for non-FB sites to be running FB scripts.
The one trade-off is that some sites are script-heavy enough (and interdependency of scripts) that it may take multiple go-arounds of mass-enabling of scripting hosts to get to certain content. But it happens infrequently enough for me, that I can live with it.
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