> Wired's prediction is even more annoying because they've started begging me to turn off my adblocker last time I visited them a couple of days ago
Forbes "30 under 30": They don't let you read articles if you adblock... "To read this, you must disable". They create an article security nerds want to read... which then serves up a pop-under adware to steal passwords.
About 50 tracking, remarketing and generally privacy invasive scripts are executed on your browser [0] when visiting Forbes via their "Ad Light" experience.
Allowing all that scripting to run still didn't let me access the article. I can live without ever going to Forbes.
Forbes "30 under 30": They don't let you read articles if you adblock... "To read this, you must disable". They create an article security nerds want to read... which then serves up a pop-under adware to steal passwords.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...
I lost my compassion after that one. (I didn't get bit... but I had disabled adblock for one or two of their articles temporarily... not again)