Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures
Interesting how the response of sites with terrible user experiences caused by ad tech is not to say “oh, how can we change our ads so people will accept them?” but rather to find ways to make their user experiences even more horrible, e.g. popping up <i>new</i> unwanted interruptions accusing you of having an ad-blocker.<p>Hey big web sites, here is the solution, and I won’t even charge you for it: <i>stop making terrible user experiences</i>.  I am <i>not trying to block your ad</i>; I am <i>blocking your carelessly-written malware-laden code</i>, your <i>obnoxious pop-ups</i>, your <i>auto-playing videos</i>, your <i>shove-in-my-face-at-the-worst-time messages</i>, your <i>unreasonable consumption of my mobile data</i>, and <i>everything that is making a simple article difficult to load</i>.<p>I’ll even tell you how to fix this: make more simple text ads, or images that are not animated and not peppered with distracting colors.  Make the first paragraph of every article a nice little blurb telling me more about a company that pays you to advertise for them.  Put some cute ads in muted colors inline with the content.  Create a couple simple links to things that cost money that could support you (apps, T-shirts or whatever).  In short, don’t be a complete jerk to the people you apparently “need” to help maintain the costs of your site.