Pop-up asking me to disable my ad blocker

[snowy owl]

On 04/06/2025 at 15:02, Steven P. said:

Yeah but the ad block popup thing is not a Neowin cookie. Neowin sets a lot of cookies from different domains too I believe. Just look! 😛 (you can view this by pressing F12 > and then the 'Application' tab in Chrome).

If you are deleting cookies after every session then it makes sense to me that you have to login to YouTube and certain other sites again, and so forth.

Even though the cookies are not called neowin.net they are still considered first party ones necessary to the site for different things. Third party cookies are blocked by default in Chrome (also on my Chrome) but everything "just works".

The same rule applies to YouTube, as well as other sites that are whitelisted by Cookie AutoDelete, and I have no issues connecting to these sites?

Everything is kept with Cookie AutoDelete, except third-party cookies.

 

Edited June 4, 2025 by snowy owl

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 04/06/2025 at 21:09, snowy owl said:

The same rule applies to YouTube, as well as other sites that are whitelisted by Cookie AutoDelete, and I have no issues connecting to these sites?

Everything is kept with Cookie AutoDelete, except third-party cookies.

If you disabled Cookie AutoDelete completely for a test, does it still happen?

At the end of the day I want to solve this with you  

[snowy owl]

On 04/06/2025 at 15:22, Steven P. said:

If you disabled Cookie AutoDelete completely for a test, does it still happen?

At the end of the day I want to solve this with you  

I think you've hit the nail on the head!

I logged out after disabling Cookie AutoDelete, relaunched Firefox, and returned to the site, and no pop-ups. Before claiming victory, I'm going to leave this extension deactivated, and I'll let you know the results in a few days' time. If it's this extension that's the problem, I'll uninstall it, as well as report the problem I've encountered.

Thank You!

 

[snowy owl]

It didn't take that long, with the extension disabled (Cookie AutoDelete), without even leaving the browser, back on Neowin, and I'm greeted by this pop-up! So it's worse than with the extension enabled! Because before, at least during the same session, I could come back without having to close this pop-up! I'm going to do with it as if nothing was happening, and simply close the window. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Nick H. Supervisor]

I'm just thinking out loud for a second...could it be the cookie prompt that kicks up the adblock message?

The reason I ask is that on Firefox (ad-block enabled but not for Neowin) I don't get the cookie consent option. But if I open Chrome (ad-block disabled) and go to the Neowin I get the cookie banner and then it's all fine.

Some form of conflict of interest between the banners?

It's probably nothing, but that's what I have just noticed.

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 04/06/2025 at 23:03, Nick H. said:

I'm just thinking out loud for a second...could it be the cookie prompt that kicks up the adblock message?

The reason I ask is that on Firefox (ad-block enabled but not for Neowin) I don't get the cookie consent option. But if I open Chrome (ad-block disabled) and go to the Neowin I get the cookie banner and then it's all fine.

Some form of conflict of interest between the banners?

It's probably nothing, but that's what I have just noticed.

Yeah the cookie consent is required for even displaying ads.

[snowy owl]

On 04/06/2025 at 17:03, Nick H. said:

I'm just thinking out loud for a second...could it be the cookie prompt that kicks up the adblock message?

The reason I ask is that on Firefox (ad-block enabled but not for Neowin) I don't get the cookie consent option. But if I open Chrome (ad-block disabled) and go to the Neowin I get the cookie banner and then it's all fine.

Some form of conflict of interest between the banners?

It's probably nothing, but that's what I have just noticed.

Whether on Edge or Firefox, I don't get this prompt to accept cookies, because they're already whitelisted by the Cookie AutoDelete extension, both on Edge and Firefox.

And, as I've already said, using Edge (yesterday), Neowin isn't whitelisted (I never use Edge), and I didn't get that pop-up. And this morning, after checking, still no pop-up, and everything is activated, the proof (screenshot), I have no ads on the right side.

I must add that I block the following trackers Doubleclick, and Scorecardresearch, as well as a few other undesirable ones, via the Host file.

Back to square one!

After all, it's a simple click to continue, so I'll do with it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Thank You

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 05/06/2025 at 12:53, snowy owl said:

I must add that I block the following trackers Doubleclick, and Scorecardresearch, as well as a few other undesirable ones, via the Host file.

If you never consented to cookies (required), and you're blocking ad domains and you never see ads on Neowin (despite whitelisting) wouldn't you agree the adblock popup notice is doing what it is supposed to do?

[snowy owl]

On 05/06/2025 at 07:23, Steven P. said:

If you never consented to cookies (required)

Honestly, I don't remember accepting or refusing cookies following a prompt, because I've accepted or refused cookies on several other sites.

On 05/06/2025 at 07:23, Steven P. said:

you're blocking ad domains and you never see ads on Neowin (despite whitelisting)

On the other hand, I remember seeing  ads, before the start of the available articles (on the home page), and on the right. If the trackers I've mentioned are part of the cookies I have to accept (as well as those below), trackers that are detected by my antivirus as adware during the weekly scan, they'll remain where they are. The vast majority of cookies blocked by the Host file were added by Unchecky.

On 05/06/2025 at 07:23, Steven P. said:

wouldn't you agree the adblock popup notice is doing what it is supposed to do?

I'd say so, but are Doubleclick, Scorecardresearch, Opencandy, file2desktop, etc. among those that should be accepted? If not, then I'd say no.

 

[Steven P. Administrators]

Not to sound ungrateful for your continued presence on Neowin (which I prefer) 😛  But would you consider a subscription to just have all the third party ads turned off by us?

It's $28 ($2.33 per month) for the ad-free subscription, but it is also there for assistance and support with all the running costs.

Like everything, it is becoming increasingly harder to do this, we even try to offset it with Amazon affiliate commissions (if we could finance totally through that instead of ads, I would) 😛 

[snowy owl]

I just checked with Brave portable, the shield is disabled, as well as uBlock Origin Lite, no change to the Host file, and no pop-up when I connect to the site 😵!

On 05/06/2025 at 08:32, Steven P. said:

would you consider a subscription to just have all the third party ads turned off by us?

I think this might be the best option?

I don't have a Paypal account, because I got rid of it, and I was fed up with all the phishing attempts, so I use my credit card. Do you take credit card payments? Because so far it's been safer, no phishing attempts.

 

 

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 05/06/2025 at 14:53, snowy owl said:

I think this might be the best option?

I don't have a Paypal account, because I got rid of it, and I was fed up with all the phishing attempts, so I use my credit card. Do you take credit card payments? Because so far it's been safer, no phishing attempts.

 

 

I think you can use a credit card to donate

Here is the link https://www.neowin.net/donate/ (donate button) or by bank? (same page)

By coincidence our server guy @DaveLeggis at our server facility in the UK today replacing a router ($450+ cost) here's a pic of our rack:

 

[snowy owl]

On 05/06/2025 at 09:46, Steven P. said:

I think you can use a credit card to donate

I don't have the option of making a donation with a credit card, the other two are there. If I click on Donate, I'm redirected to Paypal!

[cork1958]

On 04/06/2025 at 14:39, cork1958 said:

Never delete cookies here.

Edit: As of a couple restarts of Firefox with and without VPN, I did not get the pop up, but did both times, with and without VPN in Edge.

Thought I'd quote myself as reference to what was happening yesterday. I wasn't getting the pop up then in Firefox, but I did just now using it.

[Steven P. Administrators]

On 05/06/2025 at 16:00, snowy owl said:

I don't have the option of making a donation with a credit card, the other two are there. If I click on Donate, I'm redirected to Paypal!

I don't know man.. when I go incognito and I fill in an amount and click on Donate with Debit or credit card, it takes me to a page where I can choose the country and bank/credit card details to fill in. It does not require a PayPal account.

No biggie either way.

[corrosive23]

The new "upgrade" ,in addition to breaking the site when using dns based ad-blocking, also throws up the error on every page.