As some of you may know, Forbes.com recently took the unusual step of completely disallowing access to their content to anyone running an ad-blocker (apparently people who visit Forbes without an adblocker will be served Malware). I have two questions. One, how does Dorbes know when an ad-blocker is running? And two, why does the following bit of “code” circumvent Forbes’ maneuver and make the site accessible again?
I was told to get a plugin called EditThis Cookie and then “important the following as a JSON”.
[ { “domain”: “.forbes.com”, “hostOnly”: false, “httpOnly”: false, “name”: “dailyWelcomeCookie”, “path”: “/”, “secure”: false, “session”: false, “storeId”: “0”, “value”: “true”, “id”: 3 }, { “domain”: “.forbes.com”, “hostOnly”: false, “httpOnly”: false, “name”: “welcomeAd”, “path”: “/”, “secure”: false, “session”: true, “storeId”: “0”, “value”: “true”, “id”: 9 } ]
What voodoo is this?