Did you try exactly what @Skeptic showed in the umatrix screenshot? That worked for me. Then again i’ve only tried it in the pale moon browser, not firefox original.
Maaaayyyybe? I’ll check.
The suggestion from @alahmnat worked for me in Firefox and youtube plays fine.
I don’t think I did, but I’ve had enough now. I’m going to bed to read books about wizards instead.
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Oddly enough your solution did not work if i had Privacy Badger also enabled on the site. I have to either disable 1st party scripts directly from BB which breaks some site functionality (i can’t use the top menu to navigate to the forums), or i have to disable Privacy Badger so for the sake of my sanity i am doing without it but thankfully its not throwing a fit over me having uBlock on. Ideally i prefer to have both on but whatevs.
Again, if someone from BB is listening. If this is purely a monetary thing i would much rather contribute directly to the site rather than have a 3rd party like Google all up in my business.
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Ditto that here, using ublock origin.
Mark, Xeni, Cory et al:
If you need support from we happy mutants, OK. However, I think the “ad removal pass” that charges as-you-go on a “per page” basis is the single worst way to monetize. What constitutes a “page”? How do I know how much I’ve “spent” at a nickel a page? Once I’ve paid to read an article, do I have to pay again to re-read the same one? How do I set a spending limit, and most importantly, Why should I?
Please reconsider. Boingboing is one of the last places I expected to see smart people contributing to a shitty internet. Nag screens and pay-as-you go subscriptions are signs of an internet of shit. There must be a better solution, if you need the money.
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No issues using Brave, for now.
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Hurry, somebody click into the store and buy one of those totally reasonable $900 collapsible electric skateboards or subscribe to all of the online coding courses! Everybody read all of those totally sincere Fortnite posts! We can undo this!
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Same actually, despite having used the store in the past. It’s why i sort of tolerate the sponsored articles, at least you can just scroll straight past.
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Or learn about security threats and how to protect yourself from malicious code. 
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You are massively underestimating how much a certain Author enjoys that game.
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I’ve been non-stop playing Fallout 76 despite the criticism that’s been receiving 
Fortnite by comparison is the greatest thing since sliced bread. So, you know… glass houses and such.
Addons like noscript and umatrix are still a bit like black boxes of magic to me but doesn’t umatrix do some form of xss protection? It was my understanding that it’s not as good as noscript in that regard. I suppose you could use noscript and umatrix together but i don’t think i want the headache of managing both to get a site to work.
I value adblocking and am unwilling to give it up largely because of material @beschizza & @doctorow blogged about right here on BoingBoing.
I am curious to hear why BoingBoing staffers expect the audience they radicalized to abandon the very practices they preached?
You (BB Staff) have every right to do this, you don’t owe the community an explanation. None the less, we’d still appreciate knowing why you’ve embraced this undesirable paywall?
I hope to continue patronizing BoingBoing, but I don’t see how given this new point of friction…
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Well, I am disappointed, especially considering the extent that boingboing’s stance in the past has to promote alternative forms of income for sites that aren’t in-your-face ads.
Boingboing suddenly becomes less relevant to my interests, unfortunately.
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I didn’t even know that Google offered a service like this. So I’m surprised to find that it has been around since 2015 and that the 2.0 version has been out since 2017. Android police tried and abandoned the 2.0 version years ago for many of the reasons mentioned in the comment thread and more, including the fact that many people can’t whitelist URLs at work, thus insuring that a large swath of tech employees will read the site less, regardless of whether they want to see ads or pay. AP explains something I had also wondered about:
Another concern I had was the pay-per-view model. I was afraid that whether consciously or subconsciously, people would start visiting the site less, especially since homepage reloads are naturally counted as individual views. This model also doesn’t seem to be what people actually want. According to this poll, the majority of you prefer an all-you-can-eat system with a flat monthly fee, which Google Funding Choices doesn’t support.
Even after four years of operation, a subscription still seems to be missing from Google’s options. Having been around for so many years without killing Patreon, it’s clearly not a Patreon killer. But it remains to be seen whether it is viable long term or just another project Google will kill like Google+, leaving a swath of annoyed people in its wake.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??? So when I reload the home page to see if new posts have appeared ('cos my browser often seems not to dynamically update the page) I’d have to pay again? (If I’d taken out a subscription) Really? I don’t understand all this stuff sufficiently but this really feels like it is getting to ‘jump the shark’ time for BB, where we’ve all been encouraged to protect our browsers and privacy on a regular basis.
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For what it’s worth, there aren’t any javascripts that can detect that you’re using a Pi-hole.
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According to this old link, they can be used together, which is not something I’d considered.
orbisvicis commented Apr 4, 2016
If umatrix is used with noscript in “allow scripts globally mode”, then “cascade top-level document’s permissions to third-party sites” has no effect, I presume?
ThrawnCA commented Apr 5, 2016
Correct. Allowing scripts globally makes most of the other script settings redundant.
However, cascading permissions might be a better choice when combining with uMatrix. Then, NoScript will control the permissions of the top-level site (including inline scripts), and once it’s allowed, uMatrix will control all the third parties.
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I’m actually someone who doesn’t mind paying for sites that generate original content. But 5¢ per page is absurd, especially on a site without many long-form articles (or journalists). That’s the kind of money I would pay a newspaper, or a site with articles I spend 10-30 minutes on.
There’s no way ads generate that kind of revenue. So when I reluctantly turn on ads and see them splashed all over the screen and blocking my ability to see videos, BoingBoing is getting a fraction of what it asked me for, and I’m getting a much worse experience.
There must be a happier ground in between 5¢ per page and the fraction of a penny the ads give you for my eyes.
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