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How do you handle "disable your adblock" type sites? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know, I know, the wisest thing to do is to abandon them, but today I came across a site that I simply couldn't bypass because it always blocked me with an extremely stupid "disable your adblock" video, that infuriated me so much... I would 100% migrate to torrents if I didn't find such unique catalogs on these sites.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 2 days ago

Well, if it's not something I really want to see, I just close it. If I do want to see it, then:

if I'm on my laptop, I open dev tools and remove the element blocking other interaction
if I'm on my phone or the above doesn't work on laptop, I open an anonymous window, disable adblock, read/watch/whatever the content, enable adblock, close anonymous window

I do and same for other kinds of annoyances, like the recent trend of "pay us or give us consent to mine your data".