126 Reply by AnfieldX

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Re: Adblock message

santah wrote:

If you're logged out of the site, do the ads load for you?

Are you getting the adblock popup on each page load or does it sometimes show up and sometimes not?

For example on the homepage, if you refresh it 10 times, will you get it 10 times?

It goes through days when it doesn't pop up at all and then suddenly it's back, often reappearing after numerous refreshes.

127 Reply by theaphid (edited by theaphid 2020-12-07 13:20:24)

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Re: Adblock message

Rather than reply to this post:
https://forum.next-episode.net/post.php … qid=166901
and be off-topic in that thread, my musings seem better-placed here...

I don't have an ad-blocker but I have the hosts file from
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
and I have allowed the NE adverts by allowing some Google (grudgingly!) cookies in my Firefox (64bit, fully updated, no other additives except for "Facebook Container" and "Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on") browser.

Menu - Options -  Privacy & Security - Cookies and Site Data
I ticked (aka 'checked') the box to "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"
Then in "Manage Exceptions..." I added the following for "Allow for Session":

  • https:// ssl.google-analytics .com

  • https:// adservice.google .com

  • https:// www. googletagservices .com

  • https:// tpc.googlesyndication .com

  • https:// googleads.g.doubleclick .net

  • https:// pagead2.googlesyndication .com

(Remove spaces if you copy & paste these! Also check that hosts file to REM these out if necessary.)

Just in case it helps someone else...
Cheers!

Edit: Added another URL and included some strategic spaces to prevent the links becoming clickable (grrr!)

128 Reply by Goodthanks

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Just had this pop up. Using firefox there was no close button so I had to "inspect element" and delete it before I could do anything. It's probably more annoying than it should be in that regard.

I've disabled noscript and adblock but it's still not working. I'm not turning on tracking.

The premium info is a bit vague. How much is it exactly?

Also is there a way to do a one off payment, I don't want any kind of subscription. I would rather renew it manually each year. Is there a lifetime member option?

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Thanks for the feedback Goodthanks.

I've sent you an email.

Cheers!

130 Reply by LuC

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I just got this pop-up out of the blue, only thing is I don't have ad-block, I see ads, lots of them, every time I come here and for the benefit of the doubt I went looking to see if I had some ad-block that I simply didn't know about but found... nothing.  So, not sure what the deal is.  Just reporting my experience and circumstances.

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So do you see ads under the ad-block popup? If you scroll up/down?

If not - something on your system is blocking them. Try what's suggested in the popup to see if you can get it fixed ...

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I've also gotten blocked out, and I've run through all of the suggestions, to no avail.

I love this site, but at the moment I cannot afford to support it financially, I have been as active as I can, doing other things like rating shows, suggesting new ones, and pointing out possible glitches etc...

I keep getting the popup regardless of whatever browser I use, so I think it's a bulk VPN blocker or something. To blacklist VPN's isn't very smart, as more and more people are moving towards that direction (too many spammers, hackers, phishers and other assholes out there not to).
This renders the site completely unusable for me, unless I disable all scripts, which disables most functionality...
I am therefore unable to read or respond to messages.
If I don't respond, there is the great possibility that I can't even read the message in the first place.

I hope you at least reach some kind of reasonable compromise... (security is always a balance)

Great work up until now (at least).

Thanks!




Thanks!

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Hey tvsucks.

We're not specifically blacklisting VPNs or anything - it's just that whatever blocks the ads - triggers the popup.

Can't you whitelist the domain so it doesn't go through your VPN or something?

And supporting Next Episode isn't expensive at all - it's under $20 per whole year and will solve this for you right away and will give you a ton of additional functionality on the site ...

Cheers!

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I was fine with disabling adblock a few weeks ago, but today I got another such blocking message that forced me to enable all the tracking shit on this site too.

"Thank you for being a loyal member for 2 years, as a gift for your loyalty we now force you to spread your data to hundreds of data broker companies."

Fuck you

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It doesn't force you to enable tracking.

It detects if ads are not showing - and if not - triggers the popup.

Something was still blocking the ads.

If you don't want to allow ads - check out Premium at https://next-episode.net/premium

It's free to try for a whole month and not at all expensive after. It'll solve your issue with the adblocker and will give you a ton additional great features!

Try it.

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What happened with the comment I left here a day or so ago after #135? I explained to you what happened and why you are wrong, and even showed you why the whole thing you're doing is useless, and now it's nowhere. Did you delete it?

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Yes I deleted it for the language you keep using here. It is against the rules of this forum and community.

What the anti ad-block is doing is not useless. In your specific case - you have multiple extensions that block ads. One of them seems to be successful right now and in a way that doesn't trigger the popup.

This is most likely temporary, as the mechanism for anti adblocking changes all the time (as adblockers do).

But again - we don't detect tracking here - only if ads show or not. If not - the popup shows (usually).

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got blocked out also,- using free dns service so probably that. cant whitelist on it

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rosagol wrote:

got blocked out also,- using free dns service so probably that. cant whitelist on it

Can you try without going through that DNS service to see if that's what's causing it?

If you can't whitelist on it - check out Premium at https://next-episode.net/premium

It'll solve this for you and it'll give you a ton of nice features, which, looking at how long you've been on Next Episode - I'm sure you'll appreciate.

Let me know ...