https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/adblock-plus/Recent content in Adblock Plus on Remko's BlogHugoen-usTue, 14 Mar 2017 16:34:52 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2017/03/14/forbes-com-cookies-ads/Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:34:52 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2017/03/14/forbes-com-cookies-ads/<p>Even though I try not to visit the forbes.com site anymore due to their heavy usages of ads, anti adblocker and overwhelming number of cookies they&rsquo;re trying to push, sometimes however I accidentally follow a tweet that leads to forbes.com and just notice it to late.</p> <p>Besides wasting your bandwidth, mobile data and especially time there have been a few occasions were the forbes.com page was actually <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/security/forbes-malware-ad-blocker-advertisements.html">serving malware</a> from their adfeeds.</p> <p>It annoys me bigtime so let&rsquo;s &ldquo;fix&rdquo; this:</p> <p>First thing that happens upon visiting the forbes site is that you get a blurred background with a random ad or quote of the day and you need to press <code>Continue to article</code>:</p> <p><a href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image-16.webp" class="glightbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-4074"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="display: inline;" title="image" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image_thumb-16.webp" alt="image" width="240" height="43" /></a></p> <p>If you open the Developer console in Chrome (Application tab) you can see that Forbes uses a cookie that expires in 24 hours. This cookie make sure that you don&rsquo;t see the &ldquo;welcome&rdquo; ad for 24 hours:</p>