Why don't you have an adblocker yet?

Published on May 28, 2026

Webmaster varve has written an amusing snippet of HTML, which displays a warning banner to users who don't have an adblocker enabled.

screenshot: banner with text "Hey! It looks like you're not running an ad-blocker. You can make the internet a much faster and less obnoxious place by installing one. My favourites are uBlock Origin (a browser extension) and Blokada (a smartphone system-level ad-blocker)."

I thought this was a fun way to raise awareness for a technology that everyone should use, at least on the Big Evil sites. Over half of U.S. web users already block ads. Why don't you?

If you're looking to install an ad blocker, you could try:

uBlock Origin for Firefox
uBlock Origin Lite for Chrome
Orion web browser on iOS and macOS
Blokada for iOS and Android