Knowyourmeme Whitelist
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Overview
Knowyourmeme whitelist refers to the whitelist feature on Knowyourmeme, which is criticized for both being annoying, and being easily blockable by third-party software, like uBlock Origin.
Background
On August 15th, 2017, it was announced in a thread[1] that a new obnoxious message would be made, and used on viewers who used adblocking software. The response, was heavily negative.
Developments
Criticism
The whitelist message was extremely criticized, with users being angry, many users complained that it was annoying, others saying that the ads on the site were harmful, and auto-playing. So they kept their adblock on. Others saying that it should only be on certain pages, however, it was still not removed from the site.
Ability to be disabled
It didn't take long for users on Knowyourmeme, to notice that the message was easily disabled by the third-party plugin, uBlock Origin. With the user, Super_Noodle, even making an image about how to block the message on uBlock[2].
Search Interest
External References
[1] Knowyourmeme – Whitelist Us on Ad Blocker
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