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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   I recently received an email from someone who uses Ad Blocker complaining that they are unable to view my articles – even the articles for which I turned off the ads. What gives?

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      Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      I think, HP asks them to turn off their ad block to read the article. Other websites do this as well

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         Gregory DeVictorposted 10 months agoin reply to this

         Kenna, I agree with you on this.

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            Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

            

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         Miebakagh57posted 10 months agoin reply to this

         Kenna, I hear you. But I never know that.                                     What? Turn off the ad blk to read the story? How then can the reader or visitorr click the ad and we writers make income? Wondering.

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            Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

            If visitors have an ad blocker, they can't see the ads, and revenues are not generated.

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      WriterJanisposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      For what it's worth, I have ad blocker on my laptop, but can still read HP articles. I don't have it on my phone and when I read articles here, I get plenty of ads popping up.

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   Jodahposted 10 months ago

   If this is true it is of real concern, Genna. The only way to enjoy reading our articles without feeling you are reading one long add, interspersed with a little content, is to use an ad-blocker.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   Hi John..
   
   Thanks for the comment, which makes perfect sense.  I did email him back asking him to send me a screenshot, and he said that the notice has disappeared, and is no longer popping up. This seems to coincide following the time I posted this thread. He stated that the notice was generic and popped up with each article -- not at the profile level or screen -- and it was a company that wasn’t Hubpages. Weird but definitely not surprising for HP.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   Hi  Kenna and Greg…
   
   Thanks so much for the comments, but it still doesn’t address my question regarding the illogic of refusing to allow an Ad Blocker for articles for which the ads have been blocked on my end.  In any event, it seems that this is no longer happening.  But I will check with Team Hubpages to obtain more feedback.

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      Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      Genna, I hear you. And I hope you figure it out and your issue is resolved.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   Thank you, Kenna.
   
   Well, here’s the scoop…
   
   I emailed Team Hubpages but received an email that was somewhat vague and contradictory in terms of how “you cannot block ads,” on what niche sites, etc. 
   
   The viewer tried to again and, sure enough, the warning that had disappeared, reappeared. The company with the Ad Block prevention screen is the Arena Group.  However, you can click on a button at the bottom of Arena’s screen, “Continue for Now,” and it will allow you to read the HP publication.  But where the ads used to be, you see a large blank spaces, each with the word ADVERTISEMENT at the top. Weird.

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      Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      I hear you. But most websites are like this. I am not saying it's right, but it's being done.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   I agree, Kenna.  The weird thing is that there are ways you can get around it, albeit not in a particularly screen appealing fashion. Dana, the viewer who emailed me, stated, “257 ads were blocked.”

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      Kenna McHughposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      I hear you. I am sure those are rotating ads.

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      Venkatachari Mposted 10 months agoin reply to this

      I think those 257 ads were from multiple pages, not on a single page. So, that is quite the norm nowadays, whether you use a mobile platform or a Desktop. If you block, sometimes the blank spaces may disappear but not always.

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   eugbugposted 10 months ago

   That's the first I've heard of a turn off your ad-block popup.  However they're correct about the blank spaces when an ad block is turned on and the text  "content continues below" or "advertisement" displayed above the spaces. That seems to be hardwired into the HTML. If the team can hardwire that text using maybe some sort of batch processing software on articles' code, and ads get put into those spaces, I don't see why the software that places the text and places can't put them in locations that we specify by using a delimiter in text modules.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   Thank you, everyone, for that thoughtful feedback.

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   Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

   This viewer, Dana, and his wife, Molly, followed me for years before I went on hiatus.  They are not hub members but would leave occasional comments.  They were surprised when they could not post a comment to “Case Histories” and were unaware of how things have changed.  (LetterPile allows them, but HP no longer does.) Dana did state in his email that he opened two recent publications.  He also wrote that they were surprised that hubs are now “over-bloated with ads.” So I would have to agree with Kenna in that a lot of those blocked ads were rotating ones.
   
   Janis, on a side note, Dana advised that the name of the company is Arena Group.  I’m assuming that you have to use full blocking in order for this message to pop up.

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    Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

    I meant to add that a member from Team Hubpages stated in his email to me:  "People using ad blockers cannot view HubPages articles."

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       WriterJanisposted 10 months agoin reply to this

       Interesting. I just opened a HubPage article and could read it. However, I'm unable to tell if it is just a HugPage article or a discover article.

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          Venkatachari Mposted 10 months agoin reply to this

          Why? If it is a Discover, the URL will show discoverhubpages.com; otherwise only hubpages.com

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          Genna Eastposted 10 months agoin reply to this

          Interesting, Janis, thank you.  When you opened the HP article, where all the ads blocked? Were any of them visible?

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    Genna Eastposted 10 months ago

    My apologies for so many posts.  Dana kindly sent me this screen shot word copy and noted that one has to go into the private browser mode when accessing, and that “most Ad Blockers have anti-site tracking.”  You can see at the bottom that it states Continue for now. I hope this helps. 
    Thank you. :

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