New ad blocker messages

In the case of TSR, i'd have no problem going back to the old model with subscribers and a monthly fee. But the new model, £5 = 500 page views, so I did an audit of how many page views i've made on here in the past month, and came to the conclusion that to continue at my current rate, I'd need to be spending about £30 a month, i'm not a particularly heavy user, but lets think about this. If you have seen a post that interests you from the front page.

Page count:
1. Home Page
2. Post of interest
You want to make a comment?
3. Send reply
4. returns you to post of interest.

4 pageviews just to make a comment, and you're going to charge people £5 for 500, or force them to run obtrusive adverts instead.

I'm still of the opinion that until it's made explicitly clear, the current wording of the ePrivacy Directive, requires that implicit consent must have been given for the running of any adblock detection to occur, rather than the implied they're trying to pull at the moment. When GDPR comes into effect, there will be none of this implied BS, because they'll be legally required to get implicit permission for any data collection.

A script, running in the background (yes, i've checked, it's an adaptation of a fairly well known one, and it's one of the most obtrusive as well) that is collecting information from the client side of an interaction, is data collection.

As it stands, i've just set up a whole new set of custom rules for bypassing this, if you want money from me to remove the popups, fine. Use a reasonable model and i'll consider it. Especially as most of the time, i'm personally not here to search for help.

However, with this model, taking into account that the little quip about 65 staff yada yada, TSR Group is a multimillion pound business according to 2016 filings, blocks are in place, just like every other multimillion business doing this dubious practice.

I've noticed more and more websites now tell me I'm running an ad blocker.

If you're using adblock plus, either use block element and then click the purple bar or you can go to settings and add the element manually.

It's this btw "thestudentroom.co.uk##.fc-root.fc-pinned-message-container"

I am trying to block using ABP in Firefox. Where do I find Block Element? Where do I find settings?

Tried, doesn't work for me. Must be browser-specific.

When you click the extension icon it should give you the option to block element, I'm not sure if the layout is the same as the chrome version

What is the extension icon?

I have a red hexagon.

That's what I'm talking about

What I am offered is:

Report issue on this page

Open blockable items

Filter preferences

Disable on thestudentroom.com

Disable on this page only

Disable everywhere

Options

Contribute to Adblock Plus

Options has a sub-menu:

Show tabs on flash and Java

Count filter hits

Sync Adblock Plus settings

x

So I've whitelisted TSR, got the green thumbs up on adblock, I see all the annoying ads, and I still keep getting the adblock message screen, except it never even goes to the message with me, but just presents me with a white page that never loads.

So I've whitelisted TSR, got the green thumbs up on adblock, I see all the annoying ads, and I still keep getting the adblock message screen, except it never even goes to the message with me, but just presents me with a white page that never loads.

To be honest guys they're entitled to take steps to protect their ad revenue. You're not just automatically entitled to use other people's websites for free.

That said, I personally have adblocked the please-dont-use-adblock banner, so

I also clicked through to buy a pass, and would have done if it were a set fee rather than based on page views. Looks like no-one is happy with that, so they should probably rethink it (or put a stronger anti-adblock mechanism in place).

If you have Adblock Plus on Chrome then you can click on the Adblock Plus icon, click Block Element and click that nasty purple box thingy. I don't know if it works on Firefox as well but I know there is an extension you can get for Firefox that also enables this.

Download uBlock Origin
Don't whitelist TSR
'Zap' the pop-up message with element zapper
Enjoy ad-free experience