On forbes.com, Cookies and Ads

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:34:52 +0000

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’re trying to push, sometimes however I accidentally follow a tweet that leads to forbes.com and just notice it to late.

Besides wasting your bandwidth, mobile data and especially time there have been a few occasions were the forbes.com page was actually serving malware from their adfeeds.

It annoys me bigtime so let’s “fix” this:

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 Continue to article:

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’t see the “welcome” ad for 24 hours:

Twitter Analytics and AdBlock Plus

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:35:47 +0000

Twitter has opened access to Analytics for all users. However when you use an Ad Blocker, like Adblock Plus, you'll get the following error:

For Adblock Plus you can fix this by adding a filter: go to Filter Preferences and on the "Custom filters" tab add a new filter within a filter group (or create a filter group for this rule).

Use this as a filter rule:

@@||ads.twitter.com/stylesheets/ads-allow.css

And don't forget to Enable the rule!

EDIT: Twitter user @Ertraeglichkeit mentioned a different method:

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On forbes.com, Cookies and Ads

Twitter Analytics and AdBlock Plus