The Daily Mail now INSISTS I disable my adblocker.

[MILlovesBegonias]

Has this happened to anyone else yet? It's the first time I've had this happen. Can't access any content until I disable my adblocker. Even reloading the page doesn't make any difference.

[Mindyourbeeswaxok]

And your issue is it's no ones elses business what other people read

[Mindyourbeeswaxok]

Nope that merely breaks the page

[Mindyourbeeswaxok]

And why is it anything to do with you what someone reads

[MaxF414]

My pleasure ,LemonSwan

Any other computer questions ask away .

[LemonSwan]

@MaxF414

OMG you flipping genius!!!

Have had this issue on Daily Mail and Metro for a year now!

You just fixed it and I am so grateful.

And before everyone winges about the fail... well I read nearly every newspaper over a week. Because I like to see whats going on in this country rather than stick my head in the sand.

And I do love a daily fail infographic

[PhylipR]

Install an ad blocker called undetectable adblocker. It works fantastically on the Mail.

[EstebanTheMagnificent]

Well, yeah. They are a business, not a charity, and they have to make money out of their content. Newspaper circulations and advertising revenue are way down so they have to monetise their website, which means a choice between a paywall or advertising.

Why do you think you should be able to access their content for free?

[mizfiesta]

I was using the Brave browser to access the Daily Mail website advert free until today. They've rumbled it I think. It's coming up with that PIA blocker message now. Back to the drawing board.

[Legomadx2]

Yes PP bore off with your sanctimonious, virtue-signalling and frankly tedious anti Mail shite.

I haven't had the ad problem yet OP but there's good advice on the thread which I shall employ if I need to.

[pontoon01]

you just need to block > www.dailymail.co.uk/static/mol-adverts/4.0.42/mol-adverts.js < with ABP

[AgeShallNotWitherHer]

I agree that it is much better to read a variety of sources. I hate virtue signalling and superiority. Waste of time

[PickAChew]

And yes, I do read some of the money articles on my phone. I'd rather keep the gossipy shite off my screen, though.

[PickAChew]

No sad loss. I think I might still have kitten block on my laptop, anyhow.

I'll allow ads on sites I'm happy to support.

[NotClosedMinded]

Many newsites do this. The alternative is paying for a subscription.

For all its faults The Mail and more so The Mail on Sunday report on crimes against women and children which sites like The Guardian don't think are worth even mentioning. It is always better to get news and information from a variety of sources and bear in mind each source will have its own bias.

Or alternatively you can virtue signal how superior and clever you are by posting comments like presumably they've discovered that the vast bulk of their readership aren't knowledgeable enough to set up an adblock

[annielouise]

I've noticed it too. Annoying. Yes, I read the DM along with other sites. The DM has quite a nice travel section and the odd interesting thing on the money section. I don't read the celebrity bit as don't know most people. Most people I know read a few sites.

[SpoonBlender]

Presumably they've discovered that the vast bulk of their readership aren't knowledgeable enough to set up an adblock. They certainly know their demographic.

[BertieBotts]

Those warnings give me the rage. I usually just click away immediately. Don't want me to use your site? Okay, I won't then - despite the fact I have the option on adblock to allow unobtrusive ads, so you might have been getting revenue from me anyway. No problem.

When there is a nice message explaining that a website uses ads as an income stream I will often think about disabling it for that site.

[DGRossetti]

The internet is listening ...

www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/15/brave_web_browser_hits_version_1/

The privacy-focused Brave web browser has reached version 1.0, available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

Brave, an open-source browser based on the Google Chromium project, is notable for two things. First, it blocks ads, trackers and cross-site cookies by default. This feature is called Shields. An icon in the toolbar tells you how many items are blocked, with numbers in the 30s and 40s common.

(contd) ...

[ThatsMeInTheSpotlight]

It's always wiser to know what your enemy is saying than hide in an echo chamber imo Plus some of us need to read papers from across the spectrum for professional reasons.

Anyway yy OP I noticed this today too and I agree it makes it unreadable.

[ChrissyBerg36]

These poor little snowflakes. Spare a thought but Fascism comes at a price, not just for those who are demonised by it, but also for those who encourage it and wallow in it for their own unfathomable reasons.

The least these poor lambs could do is click a few ads for the Thai brides and erectile dysfunction preps that shine a light on their partner's browsing history.

[DGRossetti]

Quite aside from the fact that ads clutter a screen and can render screenreaders useless (another kick in the teeth for the less able, although that's not going to worry Daily Mail readers overly) there's also the fact that they can slow your machine down to a crawl and if you're on a metered/mobile connection, you are paying for the bandwidth.

[MaxF414]

To get around this, you need to disable javascript in Chrome, which is easy.
3 dots top right of Chrome- settings - advanced-site settings- javascript, under 'block' add 'www.dailymail.co.uk ' with no inverted commas.
Exit settings and refresh Mail website, you can now scroll and read with no Ads

Only bad thing is that you cannot login to post comments, but who wants to join the YaBoo sucks crowd anyway ...

[AlternativePerspective]

Are you really so blinkered that you don't know that millions of people around the world read the mail online every single day simply because they want to?
Well, millions of people watch love island, and used to watch the Jeremy Kyle show. Big brother, x-factor, gogglebox and the list goes on. Doesn’t make them any less shite.

But all that aside, ads are becoming such a thing now that there will come a time when people just won’t bother, because often the amount of ads leave the sites unreadable so instead of turning off the ad blocker people just won’t bother to read at all.

[mizfiesta]

Today was the first day I encountered this problem and it just makes the Daily Mail website unreadable - this time for all the wrong reasons lol
What a total pain! I hope there's another adblocker out there that can get around this.