I suppose it's really a "begging blocker" that we need, rather than a traditional ad blocker. One website that I'm "forced" to use gives these begging messages on almost every page!
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Why is website design so awful today, generally?
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Microsoft does this on some of their sites. So you always open links to their pages in a new tab.
The other naughty betaviour is on news sites and others that direct your back button click to their adverts “before you go, please see…” etc. i despise that.
They’re called modals. And, yes, the greedy — as they always do — highly abuse these tools.
Modal UX design: Patterns, examples, and best practices - LogRocket Blog
To avoid hurting UX, we must maintain good modal anatomy, and the most important aspect is deciding when a modal is appropriate to use.
blog.logrocket.com
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depends on which ad blocker you have. In 1blockr its the Annoyances switch:
with ublockOrigin you want to check the Annoyances lists:
note if you have trust issues and online privacy conscious, use a open source adblocker because I believe the adblocker extension CAN see all sites you visit
i'll give you that, plug-ins were annoyance but at the time was magically to see a video in the website. Now its replaced with bloated "apps" , visiting a modern site feels as heavy as launching Microsoft Excel.
They’re called modals. And, yes, the greedy — as they always do — highly abuse these tools.
Modal UX design: Patterns, examples, and best practices - LogRocket Blog
To avoid hurting UX, we must maintain good modal anatomy, and the most important aspect is deciding when a modal is appropriate to use.W3Schools.com
W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.www.w3schools.com
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With uBlockOrigin you can "zap" anything you do not like out of the web page albeit AFAIK this works only on Firefox and maybe Brave.
If you like safari, and a light browser user , give Orion a shot. Its supposed to be a light+webkit based (like safari) browser and can run extensions from both Chrome and Firefox. Its built by the guys behind the paid search engine Kagi.com . https://kagi.com/orion/
Its in beta still though. If you are heavy browser user I would say FF or Brave. You cant go wrong with Brave (Its like Google Chrome without Google spying code).
tell me how you like it. I am on Wipr for safari which is more lightweight but Blockr has more options.
I'm on the 14 day trial. The free version doesn't allow you to enable all of the blocks. At first I was not impressed, modals were still coming through. Then I turned on "Other Annoyances" and I have not seen one since; however my browsing activity has been light/limited since then. I need more days/browsing before I have a better idea.
I was still getting the request for my location, so I changed the Safari permission from Ask to Deny.
I have not noticed any slowing down of pages loading or other downsides.
I'm still getting modals appearing, but it's possible I'm getting fewer. Could just be wishful thinking. At this moment, I'm probably going to let the subscription go through and cancel the previous blocker.
you may want to give ublock origin lite a shot. its the gold standard in adblocking if you are not satisfied with 1blockr. it doesn't look as good though but free. make sure to enable annoyances filters
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Now a website that I visit regularly has added a new animated popup asking for donations. Even if you're an existing paid subscriber.
Edit: It has since been disabled for subscribers.
Edit: It has since been disabled for subscribers.
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Oh I hate those. I think there's a classic gaming site (Major Geeks) that pulls a similar stunt with a pop-up saying 'Leave without signing up and the bunny gets it' with a photo of a gun pointing at a pet rabbit. I know it's in jest but really now?
There's also a Safari annoyance where you get a similar pop-up but from Safari itself saying 'are you sure you want to leave this site? [stay on page] [leave page]' All I'm doing is reloading the Reddit home page! Why the extra click Safari? No wonder folks call Safari the modern-day Internet Explorer. Full of unfixed problems.
Albeit not related to design, the worst kind is when you make 1 donation they redirect you to another page with a letter asking you to donate more or subscribe to monthly donations.
Some people are shameless
I donated to the Heart Foundation once, only something like $20. I then ended up on The Mailing List. First this was sent by email. Unsubscribing from that resulted in them sending everything by post instead (how's that for disrespecting the donator's wishes?). Over the next few years they would have spent more than $20 printing and posting the requests for more money.