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Anti-adblock walls
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Anti-adblock walls, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Tiny hidden 'no thanks' link makes adblock wall hard to dismiss, forcing users to leave2023-12-25
- Page loads correctly then gets replaced by a fake technical error2021-05-16
- Popups block content until visitors disable their ad blocker2019-12-11
- Overlay covers the article after a few seconds, blocking reading in Firefox private window2018-05-14
- Anti-adblock walls force users into workarounds to reach the actual content2017-04-18