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Whitelist Us on Ad Blocker

Last posted Nov 05, 2018 at 03:56PM EST. Added Aug 15, 2017 at 04:05PM EDT
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Brad wrote:

Hello everyone,

If you're browsing Know Your Meme on desktop with an ad blocker enabled, you've probably noticed a big (and obnoxious) addition:

And we get it. you've come here to browse memes, not ads. In a perfect world, this would not be an issue. But in reality, because our meme research is primarily funded by advertising, we will always struggle to keep them lights on without your support.

In order for us to improve your browsing experience on this site, we kindly ask you to whitelist us from your ad blocker. With more people who whitelist our site from ad blocker, the less ads we have to stack around your memes. It's as simple as that!

But hey, If you are all about seizing them memes of production, that's fine too. You can still continue browsing by clicking on X.

Last edited Aug 16, 2017 at 01:37PM EDT

Brad wrote:

Hello everyone,

If you're browsing Know Your Meme on desktop with an ad blocker enabled, you've probably noticed a big (and obnoxious) addition:

And we get it. you've come here to browse memes, not ads. In a perfect world, this would not be an issue. But in reality, because our meme research is primarily funded by advertising, we will always struggle to keep them lights on without your support.

In order for us to improve your browsing experience on this site, we kindly ask you to whitelist us from your ad blocker. With more people who whitelist our site from ad blocker, the less ads we have to stack around your memes. It's as simple as that!

But hey, If you are all about seizing them memes of production, that's fine too. You can still continue browsing by clicking on X.

>implying that the ads that pop up isn't malware or drive by viruses
>implying that we're gonna whitelist the site to get more revenue for the site
>using THIS meme to try and get users turn off Adblock
>only manages to piss off the user base

I get what you're trying to do and all but this… this isn't how you entice users to whitelist the site. This is the exact opposite.

Brad wrote:

Hello everyone,

If you're browsing Know Your Meme on desktop with an ad blocker enabled, you've probably noticed a big (and obnoxious) addition:

And we get it. you've come here to browse memes, not ads. In a perfect world, this would not be an issue. But in reality, because our meme research is primarily funded by advertising, we will always struggle to keep them lights on without your support.

In order for us to improve your browsing experience on this site, we kindly ask you to whitelist us from your ad blocker. With more people who whitelist our site from ad blocker, the less ads we have to stack around your memes. It's as simple as that!

But hey, If you are all about seizing them memes of production, that's fine too. You can still continue browsing by clicking on X.

Get a patreon or get better ads, this will not get better if this continues.

Beating a dead horse here but, the ads on KYM was what led me to install ad-blockers on my browser. I had malware from an ad on this site infect my old laptop and forced me to do a complete factory reset on it. Now that I'm using $1000 gaming laptop as my main computer, I really can't afford losing it to another malware-infested ad.

But hey, get on that Patreon train and I'll be glad to donate some money if it means these ads go away!

olors64 wrote:

I also thank ArchaicEX for the solution.
You don't need Chrome or Stylish for this to work, as you said. I'm still using firefox with the css enabled.

Here's how you can enable this in firefox:

Type in the web address bar "about:support" and go there.
You should find something like "Show Folder" or "Open Directory" under the Application Basics. Click that.

Go to the "chrome" folder. If it isn't there, make a new folder with said name.
Open with a text editor a file called "userContent.css". If it's not there, make it yourself and open it as said before.

Add ArchaicEX's code, and save.
Restart Firefox.

I instead installed the Firefox version of UBlock Origin and followed the pastebin instructions. Worked like a charm aside from the casualties of the NSFW and Delete buttons, but that's nothing a temporary disable of UBlock can't fix when I need to use them (I still have Adblock Plus to cover the actual ad blocking).

I like how an attempt to whitelist a site resulted in its userbase instead making their browsers more fortified against ads than before. Mistakes were made.

In the middle of all this chaos, I do have one curious question:

When was the last time you browsed this site without adblock on?

It's a legit curious question. Over the last months, ad issues have improved enormously (clearly ignoring this chapter). People who accidentally browsed KYM with ads found themselves pleasantly suprised. I too have been browsing the site for a solid time now on mobile without any malicious ads or redirecting.

If the last time you tried KYM without adblock is half a year or more, may I ask to try it one more round? Just a few days works, and decide from there if you turn it back on. Odds are the malicious ads that caused the decision might no longer be there.

The feedback could help a lot and might prevent issues like this chapter from ever happening again.

RandomMan wrote:

In the middle of all this chaos, I do have one curious question:

When was the last time you browsed this site without adblock on?

It's a legit curious question. Over the last months, ad issues have improved enormously (clearly ignoring this chapter). People who accidentally browsed KYM with ads found themselves pleasantly suprised. I too have been browsing the site for a solid time now on mobile without any malicious ads or redirecting.

If the last time you tried KYM without adblock is half a year or more, may I ask to try it one more round? Just a few days works, and decide from there if you turn it back on. Odds are the malicious ads that caused the decision might no longer be there.

The feedback could help a lot and might prevent issues like this chapter from ever happening again.

i browse KYM without adblock (i use ubuntu to browse on the internet outside of twitter and facebook so i don't fear any malware) and i don't really have any problems with ads
autoplay is rare and redirecting only happend once

I found the pop-up annoying so I disblabled my ad-blocker. To my surprise most ads didn't show because noscript is blocking third party javascript. Good Job KYM!

When this started, I tested out not using any adblockers. The ads, while they didn't seem malicious and didn't redirect on desktop, were very large and at times kinda lewd. While I know KYM in general has that stuff, typically you have to choose to see it.

Before someone says "ads are tailored to you", I've had stuff on my computer to prevent tracked and have all the Google privacy settings up. None of the ads were tailored to me, that's just the default apparently.

On mobile, I didn't want to risk it. I recently linked a KYM forum thread elsewhere and someone on mobile posted a screenshot of the redirect they got. I had thought that problem was fixed – apparently not.

RandomMan wrote:

In the middle of all this chaos, I do have one curious question:

When was the last time you browsed this site without adblock on?

It's a legit curious question. Over the last months, ad issues have improved enormously (clearly ignoring this chapter). People who accidentally browsed KYM with ads found themselves pleasantly suprised. I too have been browsing the site for a solid time now on mobile without any malicious ads or redirecting.

If the last time you tried KYM without adblock is half a year or more, may I ask to try it one more round? Just a few days works, and decide from there if you turn it back on. Odds are the malicious ads that caused the decision might no longer be there.

The feedback could help a lot and might prevent issues like this chapter from ever happening again.

Actually, I started using Adblock+ only about a month ago.

I'll try disabling adblock+ for this site until the ads get annoying enough for me to turn it back on again.

Forcing us to disable AdBlock on KnowYourMeme? NOPE! When I try to browse this website in cognito on Google Chrome, the ads not only slow the computer down, but they redirect me to a website containing malware. Perhaps you should do something about that rather than forcing us to disable Adblock for this website.

Thanks to you, I'm using two ad blockers on my browser rather than following your advice.

Last edited Aug 16, 2017 at 06:10PM EDT

Most of the time whenever I disabled adblock (because I forgot to turn it back on after binge-watcing animus) and browse on KYM, I usually get these main issues:

1. Slow loading times.

2. Random video audio (and the issue is that I have to scroll more until I see it, meaning that the video is somewhere not on the present images unless I load more, which means more ads)

3. 80% chance an intrusive ad pops in and automatically "redirects"/hijacks the controls and now I have to close the bloody thing altogether.

For someone that wants ad revenue you shouldn't continue having shitty ads, which is ironic since you're losing viewers due to a shady advertisement that continues to "kidnap" them away from viewing your memesite.

Fuck I whitellisted Let'sPlays website because they don't use malicious ads, don't add up loading time, AND THEY'RE LEGIT.

My own take on this: I have to live with a satellite connection, and that means DATA CAPS. Bandwidth is at a premium, and if I'm going to keep having a pleasant browsing experience the whole month through I need to save bytes where I can.

Now, if you give us the option to not show specific ads (like auto-playing videos), we'll talk. Until then, AdBlock is running full speed ahead.

Token posting so I can find this thread again without subscribing to it.

I'm actually not that upset over this evil popup. Thanks to it, I've stepped up my game on ad blocking and page editing. I learned a lot in the hours following my discovery of the rollout, so much so that I'm kind of wanting to run into modals on another site! Pornography taught me a lot about html and now so has KYM's insane business model. Thanks!

Thank good I'm using Brave as my Internet Browser so I wouldn't be dealing with any Ads here in this site.

Hackenbacker wrote:

Hey if you guys use Puffin Browser on mobile, you won't get the pop-up.

Just a little way to avoid this hope-ending pop-up

How are you supposed to get ad-free on mobile?


Jeeze, its finally gone. Hopefully it stays that way and a suitable alternative can be had. Nearly all forums i have seen usually allow for a multi tier witch can allow disabled ads without an adblocker for a small annual or monthly fee and more access or options to use on the site.

Might as well, speak a bit of what I have to say.
While I don't have any adblocker, I never actually had trouble with ads on this site, as I would just ignore them. Rarely, I might click on one by accident, though that happened once in a wiki where it did cause a bit of a virus alert. Even if I didn't have adblocker, I'm aware that there are users who have more complexed trouble with ads than I do that require adblocker.

Having a whitelist option that behaves as a pop-up is still annoying. Simply just having it as a small thing on top of a webpage that can have the "don't recommend me again" option would be a major breather rather than something that reminds of the dreadful Windows 10 update page.

Mom Rivers wrote:

When this started, I tested out not using any adblockers. The ads, while they didn't seem malicious and didn't redirect on desktop, were very large and at times kinda lewd. While I know KYM in general has that stuff, typically you have to choose to see it.

Before someone says "ads are tailored to you", I've had stuff on my computer to prevent tracked and have all the Google privacy settings up. None of the ads were tailored to me, that's just the default apparently.

On mobile, I didn't want to risk it. I recently linked a KYM forum thread elsewhere and someone on mobile posted a screenshot of the redirect they got. I had thought that problem was fixed – apparently not.

If with "kinda lewd" you mean those weird Zombie Girl mobile games, I think those aren't exactly KYM exclusive. I'm getting them even on perfectly SFW Wikia sites.

We will forsake our users. We will leave our site behind us and become one with this ads. We have no user base, no integrity, no understanding of our users. We pop up where we're needed, shilling, not for our fan base, but for ourselves. We need no reason to advertise. We advertise because we are broke. We will be the deterrent for those with Ublock. We are Admins With Advertisements, our purpose defined by the era we live in. We will sometimes have to sell ourselves and our sites. If the times demand it, we'll be Memers, Dankmemers, Deadpoolers. And yes, we may all be headed straight to hell. But what better place for us than this? It's our only home. Our site and our hell. This is KYM.

RandomMan wrote:

In the middle of all this chaos, I do have one curious question:

When was the last time you browsed this site without adblock on?

It's a legit curious question. Over the last months, ad issues have improved enormously (clearly ignoring this chapter). People who accidentally browsed KYM with ads found themselves pleasantly suprised. I too have been browsing the site for a solid time now on mobile without any malicious ads or redirecting.

If the last time you tried KYM without adblock is half a year or more, may I ask to try it one more round? Just a few days works, and decide from there if you turn it back on. Odds are the malicious ads that caused the decision might no longer be there.

The feedback could help a lot and might prevent issues like this chapter from ever happening again.

Probably last year. It was during the time when an update came with all the relate pictures and gifs appearing at the bottom of the page. Later I turn it off around march, got redirected and warn by kaspersky. Then full adblock from then ownwards.

Lurker Boy wrote:

Well, in KYMville they say – that uBlock Origin's small userbase grew three sizes that day.

Out of curiosity i really wonder how this incident boosted uBlock Origin download count…

There's one good thing that came from this thing; now you have the best answer if anyone ever asks you that what is the worst way to get people to remove their adblock.

LastAngryWrestleman wrote:

So is the pop-up gone gone or is it nerfed to only show up once per day instead of every single time you open a new page, even when just switching between tabs on you own user profile?!

It's once a day for logged in users. We're still deciding on the frequency for logged out users but it's not on every page for them either.

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