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I have noticed that some sites are forcing you to disable adblocker in order to browse the site. I wonder why. Usually sites don't care of you are using an adblocker. This makes think that it's not just about blocking ads, but it's about adblocker blocking some tracking files that are being downloaded to your computer. Does it look plausible?

I have noticed that some sites are forcing you to disable adblocker in order to browse the site. I wonder why. Usually sites don't care of you are using an adblocker. This makes think that it's not just about blocking ads, but it's about adblocker blocking some tracking files that are being downloaded to your computer. Does it look plausible?

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I'd assume that most of their users have ad blocking so it has to be disabled or the sites can't fund themselves. I notice this most on free movie/file sharing sites, where everyone is a cheap-ass pirate so uses ad blocking.

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A properly set up hosts file will keep the browsers from even finding ad website pages: https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm