Main content area missing? uBlock Origin updated their filters and broke the site.

[Devon68]

I see the images with ublock enabled too. The only difference is the green bar on top appears if it's enabled. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[W1zzard]

I see the images with ublock enabled too. The only difference is the green bar on top appears if it's enabled. Thanks for the heads up.

A new filter update has been pushed which fixes it for most reviews

 

[Space Lynx]

It's actually a good thing, because people will just whitelist TPU

most people I think that know this community feel safe whitelisting it, I sometimes wonder if you don't realize how unique in the world wide web that really is...

it's a privilege to be a part of this place, thanks to you W1zzard!

keep up the good work and stay the course of Light!

 

[MarsM4N]

Had similar problems with uBlock Origin.

On my iPhone I got a lifetime subscription for "AdGuard". Found out there is also free a AdGuard Browser extension for desktop browsers, and even a paid standalone app (don't know if that's woth it and/or compatible with security suites). I am pretty happy for now with the free extension, way better experience than with uBlock Origin. You might give it a shot, it's free after all.

 

[Mussels]

Had similar problems with uBlock Origin.

On my iPhone I got a lifetime subscription for "AdGuard". Found out there is also free a AdGuard Browser extension for desktop browsers, and even a paid standalone app (don't know if that's woth it and/or compatible with security suites). I am pretty happy for now with the free extension, way better experience than with uBlock Origin. You might give it a shot, it's free after all.

I use adguard DNS at a router level, and it doesnt block TPU's ads (and therefore, doesnt cause issues)

 

[MarsM4N]

I use adguard DNS at a router level, and it doesnt block TPU's ads (and therefore, doesnt cause issues)

Sounds interesting, that way it would work for all connected devices. So how do you do that? I guess changing the DNS settings in your router to the AdGuard DNS Server, right?

Did you encounter any issues, like login problems or VPN problems/leaks? Using VPN from time to time for streaming or shopping, so always reediting router settings would be a real hassle.

 

[Vayra86]

It's actually a good thing, because people will just whitelist TPU

The fact is this war won't stop and not joining the race to the bottom is worthy of support. And mán, have advertisers hit the bottom of quality control, and how. Its becoming more and more common knowledge that ads have the potential to even serve malware, as they have and some still do. Its the perfect argument for anyone to ad block the shit out of everything they see. It is for me...

stay the course of Light!

It finally occurs to me why we never got that much requested dark mode on this site Is he really Gandalf, the white wizard?!

 

[Mussels]

Sounds interesting, that way it would work for all connected devices. So how do you do that? I guess changing the DNS settings in your router to the AdGuard DNS Server, right?

Did you encounter any issues, like login problems or VPN problems/leaks? Using VPN from time to time for streaming or shopping, so always reediting router settings would be a real hassle.

a VPN over-rides your DNS (and is what a lot of people mistakenly use VPN's for, not realising the DNS change is what helped)
I have no issues with it, it leaves "friendly" ads behind and is overall less aggressive than most adblockers, making it fantastic to set and forget

(I use adguard DNS at the router level, with adguard as the VPN/adblocker on my phone and tablet, with ublock origin on the PC's web browsers.)

 

[W1zzard]

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Some review images broken again due to newest filter update

update techpowerup · uBlockOrigin/uAssets@9ce6744

Resources for uBlock Origin, uMatrix: static filter lists, ready-to-use rulesets, etc. - update techpowerup · uBlockOrigin/uAssets@9ce6744

github.com

 

[MarsM4N]

a VPN over-rides your DNS (and is what a lot of people mistakenly use VPN's for, not realising the DNS change is what helped)
I have no issues with it, it leaves "friendly" ads behind and is overall less aggressive than most adblockers, making it fantastic to set and forget

(I use adguard DNS at the router level, with adguard as the VPN/adblocker on my phone and tablet, with ublock origin on the PC's web browsers.)

Interesting, thanks. So what's the reason you're using uBlock Origin on the PC's web browsers in addition to AdGuard on your router?
Does uBlock filter out more, is it more safe?

 

[Mussels]

Interesting, thanks. So what's the reason you're using uBlock Origin on the PC's web browsers in addition to AdGuard on your router?
Does uBlock filter out more, is it more safe?

ublock filters more, and has the option to whitelist. the DNS is all or nothing, hence they go 'safe' to avoid these issues like TPU is experiencing


It seems w1zz has pissed off some ad-haters.
Why focus on the one tech website with the bare minimum of ads?

 

[Selaya]

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It seems w1zz has pissed off some ad-haters.
Why focus on the one tech website with the bare minimum of ads?

Honestly, the way I see it - just be frank about it.
State that we're like, keeping our ads as honest as they can be (non-annoying and firstparty only, non-tracking) but also implementing certain countermeasures against easy adblocking which may have unintended side effects like missing content.
I'm sure the vast majority of reasonable people will accept this and whitelist; the few who wouldn't, they're probably not a loss anyways. What I have learnt is just, you can't please everyone.

 

[thelawnet]

ublock filters more, and has the option to whitelist. the DNS is all or nothing, hence they go 'safe' to avoid these issues like TPU is experiencing


It seems w1zz has pissed off some ad-haters.
Why focus on the one tech website with the bare minimum of ads?

Not sure he has? This site goes to great lengths to evade the block lists, and they go to great lengths to patch them.

As I recall some years ago one of the major ad blockers said they wouldn't block 'unobtrusive' ads and got paid $$$ for this. People didn't like this and just said 'no ads at all'.

As a tech website there is probably a much greater overlap between the readers of this and the people who work on adblock patterns, than there would be a on knitting or politics website.

 

[R-T-B]

This site goes to great lengths to evade the block lists

Does it really though? I mean, you can argue putting ad images in the same web directory as reviews is obfuscation, but it's a pretty dishonest argument when that is literally the easiest way to build a static site ad. It feels more honest to me to say they are being lazy with their filters.

Put another way, why should we go out of our way to make a product that is decidedly not ours and offers us no benefit, have an easier time working?

 

[W1zzard]

This site goes to great lengths to evade the block lists

I wouldn't call it "great lengths", it's all automated, just a few clicks. The flexibility of using only in-house ads, paired with everything self-coded and I keep learning new things on the way. We have to eat. No ads = no money = no food = wizz will go work for some Fortune 500 company

That poor dude though who's spending multiple hours each day trying to block our ads... and not even paid for it .. not sure why

 

[the54thvoid]

I know this isn't bang on topic but I don't understand the hardcore adblock idealist. As W1zz says, ads pay for the site and the staff (I guess). It's not like the government gives money to websites to provide a free service.

Some sites are awful for ads but I don't block them, I just avoid them. TPU ads are unobtrusive and stay out of the way.

I guess some folks believe they're entitled to 'free' things all the time and nobody ever needs to have an income.

 

[Assimilator]

I guess some folks believe they're entitled to 'free' things all the time and nobody ever needs to have an income.

The old and tired "people who use adblock are nothing but greedy leeches" non-argument... is that really the best you can do?

 

[the54thvoid]

The old and tired "people who use adblock are nothing but greedy leeches" non-argument... is that really the best you can do?

Not the words I used. The web isn't free and ad-blockers do deprive site owners of revenue needed to pay for the site. If you use ad-blockers because a site is a minefield of pop-ups, fair enough. But there are tonnes of good sites that offer more that don't have those intrusive ads. Static ads are no barrier to a good site.

 

[R-T-B]

Not the words I used. The web isn't free and ad-blockers do deprive site owners of revenue needed to pay for the site. If you use ad-blockers because a site is a minefield of pop-ups, fair enough. But there are tonnes of good sites that offer more that don't have those intrusive ads. Static ads are no barrier to a good site.

I agree with this 100%. And I hardly think there is "no excuse to use an ad-blocker" but we need to recognize what it does when we use one, and consider if the site is or isn't worthy of our support when doing so.

 

[W1zzard]

I agree with this 100%. And I hardly think there is "no excuse to use an ad-blocker" but we need to recognize what it does when we use one, and consider if the site is or isn't worthy of our support when doing so.

While that would be nice, it's not how things work in reality. The vast number of adblock users simply don't care about making adjustments for individual sites

 

[qubit]

TPU is one of the few sites where I turn my ad blocker off, so inadvertent blocking never happens to me.

 

[W1zzard]

Here we go again, now they are removing the source URL on all review images. Guess too lazy to test if it breaks half the site

 

[Vayra86]

I agree with this 100%. And I hardly think there is "no excuse to use an ad-blocker" but we need to recognize what it does when we use one, and consider if the site is or isn't worthy of our support when doing so.

While that would be nice, it's not how things work in reality. The vast number of adblock users simply don't care about making adjustments for individual sites

Its a difficult one really but aren't we footing the bill from shitty advertisers and advertising to ourselves here? From the user's perspective, is it fair that we have documented cases of ads serving malware and then not allow them to just block everything then and there? And from the perspective of website owners, isn't it strange that there is widespread acceptance on the positioning and intrusiveness of ads on display?

A lot of these aspects could be collectively fought to create better acceptance of ads. Websites could demand quality in much the same way users do. Users exercise control over that lack of quality by blocking. What do websites do? Some have indeed taken steps to mitigate that and tell visitors they did, but its rare. TPU is probably an example.

 

[R-T-B]

While that would be nice, it's not how things work in reality. The vast number of adblock users simply don't care about making adjustments for individual sites

I did not say the attitude was common, only saying that it should be encouraged.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I don't white list any sites
I haven't noticed any issues on tpu even when this thread came up but then again the home page I don't go to very often unless there is a poll thread
Ublock origin usually only blocks google tag manager and rightfully so.

As far as missing review images, once again just looked at a review and closer look/... all images seem to be there I do tend to jump to the conclusions since I'm really not in the market for any new hardware.

The easy privacy list I've seen some issues with it on some news sites blocking some articles videos but not images without this activated some other news sites stick on pay/subscribe trying to read an articles so it's a very helpful list because frankly some news sites need to be deprived of funds bottom line.