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(www.independent.co.uk) is one of the worst sites for aggressively blocking adblockers. It forces you to turn them off by blacking out the page and displaying a large anti-adblocker message. If you want the crossword, you have to sit through a video. It used to be possible to avoid the video by turning the adblocker on as soon as it started playing, but they've got wise to this. I'm using Adblock Plus.

It there's a way round this I'd be grateful to hear it, but if it involves scripts I'd appreciate a simple explanation! :(
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Post by intense »

for anti adblocking try:

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@@||independent.co.uk/ads.txt$xmlhttprequest
if does not help, disable ABP, install ublock origin, add the filter above, see if works
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Many thanks for the quick reply, but how do I incorporate this into ABP? Sorry to be so thick...
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Once again many thanks. All clear now, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I'll give some consideration to switching adblockers, but in the meantime I will mail the Independent and tell them that I shall no longer visit their pages until the restriction is removed. Obviously a single mail from a nobody like me is unlikely to make a scrap of difference, but if enough people did the same perhaps it would have some effect.

I very much appreciate your time and trouble.
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It it is about the paywall, test these filters in Adblock Plus viewtopic.php?p=116298&hilit=tinypass paywall#p116298
•► Read RULES / Use forum Search
••► Don't post clickable links
•••►Upload screenshots at imgbb.com
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Post by neilprague »

There's no paywall, but I tried this anyway. No joy, but thanks for the suggestion.
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Adblock Browser. Android app.
A new ad blocking message has appeared for this site.
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@@||independent.co.uk/ads.txt$xmlhttprequest
or use firefox + uBo addon in android
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I tried this website with ABP disabled but I still don't see any ads because my hosts file is also blocking ads and so the site doesn't seem to know.
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Post by InitiumSapientiae »

Here's one for the Adblock Warning Removal List: The incredibly annoying warnings on the website of The Independent. I've written the following filters to remove these:

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! Remove overlay
independent.co.uk##.tp-modal
independent.co.uk##.tp-backdrop.tp-active
! Remove floating footer prompt
independent.co.uk##.tp-backdrop.tp-active
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