This provides a Chrome extension meant to neutralize Admiral's AdBlock Recovery service with the click a button. Whenever the AdBlock Recovery paywall invites you to "Turn off your AdBlocker", click this button instead.
As of January 7, 2024, this extension, untouched, works with a wide range of websites because the heuristic it uses to target the anti-AdBlock paywall is fairly robust.
Some resistant websites have emerged, and I am actively investigating them. Please report specific URLs in the issues. Thank you!
As of February 14, 2024, I have added a new STEROID MODE which is activated when clicking the extension icon a second time. This mode is more aggressive and may work on websites that were previously resistant, as well as on websites which reject attempts to circumvent the paywall using the previous mode.
Download this repository,
unzip, and drag the admiral-sucks folder to your Chrome extension panel
at chrome://extensions.
Admiral is a company that makes money from helping web site monetize their content. They provide a variety of services, but one that is very distasteful is the AdBlock Recovery: First, they show a website how much inbound traffic uses an adblocker; second, they offer to block such adblockers; third, they promise only to take 30% of new revenue brought in from the paywall---therefore paying for itself!
News, especially local news, deserves to be supported. But not at the expense of our mental health.
At the heart of the problem, the Internet offers us access to a wide variety of different publications and websites. We do not want to have a full subscription package to each of those, but would rather be able to purchase articles on a unit basis. This requires a micropayment infrastructure that has taken very long to implement the right way.
Indeed, a much more holistic solution to the problem of adblocking, is Scroll: Users pay a fixed subscription every month ($5/month) and this money is distributed to all participating websites that the user visits, prorated to the proportion of content consumed on each website; in exchange, the participating websites agree to not display any ads. This is a win-win: In this way, users get a reprieve from advertisement while not hurting their wallet; and content creators obtain much more money than they would with ads (and even more than they would with Admiral's AdBlocker Recovery).
This project is licensed under The Unlicense. It means you can do anything you want this, for whatever purposes, you don't have to credit me, this project, or anything.