IndiaToday group's hypocrisy!
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/techno...e-than-ever-how-you-can-be-safe/1/659694.html
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/techno...e-than-ever-how-you-can-be-safe/1/659694.html
Indian news websites starts blocking AD-Block users, Open letter to them
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Even www.Livemint.com (part of HT media) is enforcing No ABP but their ads are quite neat and acceptable. I wish all the other outlets follow them. 
RakaKaKaka
Galvanizer
no , dunno which exactly but ysday clicked a new article on fb and it did not load the link and said ad block detected. Hope the next google update penalizes these ad filled new sites.
RakaKaKaka
Galvanizer
google does care for where its ads are placed. they are known to make algo changes to make ui better for users even if it means losing a lil in revenue. Penalties are on their seo rankings. eg. Too many ads on a mobile screen make it worse and google is penalizing sites that do not follow their rules. most of these obstructive ads and auto play videos are not based on adsense. they use multiple ad exchanges. google ads have the highest standards and quality of experience.
- Google Chrome - In January 2012, Google's Webspam team penalized the Chrome Browser's homepage for manipulating PageRank with purchased blog posts.[12] The penalty dropped Chrome's homepage's PageRank from 9 to 7 and knocked Chrome off of the first page for important keywords such as "browser."[13][14][15]
- Expedia - In January 2014, Expedia dropped 25% in search visibility which resulted in Expedia shares dropping 4.5%.[
the day i posted that comment, all the sites were working fine with ad-blockers on. so, i thought they relented.
sharktale1212
Herald
Best option get a script block like umatrix on chrome. It will filter out the 3 party script which tries to block the adblocker.
Running tampermonkey with scripts. Hehe. Take that, B00bs of India 
SrkOnline
Contributor
If you read news from same set of websites daily, then, the best way to read news without any ads is to use a RSS reader. All major news sites provide you rss feed links. I do the same. Hence, not worried about ads on website. I can read full article in RSS reader app with Readability mobilizer.
SrkOnline
Contributor
Yes. You are right. That's where Readability mobiliser comes into the picture. Only few rss apps provide this feature. For example: FeedMe app. In that, when the content is not displayed full, you can double tap the screen and you will get full content of the article. That's the reason why it's so useful. No ads. Comfortable reading.
Crapmypants
Herald
Running tampermonkey with scripts. Hehe. Take that, B00bs of India
was looking to use something like the above options. can you guys provide some details please? thanks!
Is there a web version of the app? Something akin to Feedly? Else, it was a bit complicated.[DOUBLEPOST=1469960227][/DOUBLEPOST]
I used this : https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer
SrkOnline
Contributor
I don't know of any web version. May be you can install readability extension in Chrome and click on it after page loads.
sharktale1212
Herald
I actually tried the anti adblock killer and it seemed to fail time again.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
Be warned the setup curve is a bit high as you try to understand how these work.
I took the lazy approach and added whole TOI URL into ublock. Whenever I try to open that site it says it's blocked and I go to another site. No need to go to such lengths to circumvent their JavaScript to read a news article.
SrkOnline
Contributor
True. I use Fedora on Windows phone. Full article loads.
But ya, I am not surprised. Indians are prime examples of being daft #1 to monetize the Web, and not understanding the true concrpt of www.
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