Anyone else seeing pop up on the main page? I run privacy badger and adblock plus. Has BB gone to the dark side with nag boxes?
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Yes, it just popped up for me as well on the grid and individual posts.
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Yup. Itās the first of these kinds of messages Iāve ever gotten from BB, and the first that ever acknowledged that script blocking, as opposed to ad blocking, is a thing.
I donāt block ads per se, I block 3d party URLs and scripting. I will see every ad and run every script that comes from the 1st party domain.
Turning off scripting is Cory approved - or it was back in 2015.
Sadly, the cure for this pop up is to turn off 1st party scripting from BoingBoing. uMatrix makes that easy to do.
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Well that was a nice site while it lasted.
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Brave browser on my phone doesnāt show it, weirdly. i wonder if itās the script blocker, not the ad blocker triggering it.
(ETA: nope. Itās ABP)
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Itās still a nice site, IMO. Pop-up is annoying tho.
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Yep, i just started getting this as of the last hour or so. I fully intend to not change any of my ad/script blocking so whatever is pushing that message can forget it. If anything i need additional script blocking to kill that message.
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Nice sites donāt harass users, as a rule.
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3 clicks with nuke anything enhanced, and itās gone til the page refreshes. Greasemonkey script maybe?
that is what other users are for ā¦
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The way they say to turn off ABP does not work. I do not have that dialogue in my ABP. Fail.
Even when I had whitelisted boingboing.net on ABP it still nagged. Turns out ghostery and NoScript may have been culprits. Whitelisted everything I could find and after many different attempts (NoScript - I āallow this siteā and refresh and then more things have popped up that need me to allow this page all over again) eventually I get through.
But not impressed - donāt mind seeing ads if I must but just allowing anything and everything a site chooses to throw at my machine is not something I like. Firefox performs like a dog as it is, I really donāt want to have to load even more things just to read a post.
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Hereās what I see with uBlock and Ghostery:
Purchase an āad removal passā? What the fresh hell kind of dystopian shit is this?
Oh well, thereās always: https://boingboing.net/ascii
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Iām getting a paywall here that tells me to buy some sort of Google ad removal pass or it will deny me content. Whatās going on here? I wanted to read about how paywalls suck, not learn firsthand.
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Thanks for the tip. I hadnāt heard of this before but itās quite slick.
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I completely understand the need for journalism and creative projects to be funded, but I have to say I donāt particularly like the way BoingBoing has decided to do it. For one, no matter how much I love a company or product, as a rule I never unblock ads. This isnāt just an āI donāt want to see adsā issue, or done to improve my own user experience - I also donāt want to be tracked by 3rd party ad networks. I would typically pay to fund things like this, but the āAd block passā theyāre selling is done through Google Contributor. I donāt have a Google account, and I donāt want to give Google more data about me than I already have to. So unfortunately, itās lose-lose from my perspective. I hope at least BoingBoing makes more money this way.
In the meantime, if youāre a Firefox user I highly recommend (AdStop Enforcer)[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adstop-enforcer/], which hinders sites from being able to detect your adblocker. Works beautifully in this case.
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Thatās the message I get. The āAllow Adsā button tells me how to unblock ads in ABP, which Iām not running.
" Buy an ad removal pass for Boing Boing
Google Contributor is partnering with Boing Boing to provide you pages without ads. It costs just pennies per page."
$0.05 per page. 
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@orenwolf Can you comment as to if this change is an intended permanent update or if it was a mistake flip of a switch?
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A four pence a page dystopian hell? Or did I misread a decimal point? I must have, surely - maybe it was 0.04 pence, and not Ā£0.04. Now Iāve got rid of it I donāt want to go back to check again. In principle I would not mind taking out a subscription for BB, at a fixed price, but no way in hell am I paying to view per page, whatever the cost per page is!
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The change is intended.
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