Serious Discussion How do you all bypass the more frequent appearance of anti-adblock blockers?

[cartaphilus]

I run nextdns, network wide and I use adguard apps and uorgin however more and more sites especially on android ecosystem running adguard app will popup a message asking you to disable adblock. Has anyone else came across that?

 

[Bot]

I run nextdns, network wide and I use adguard apps and uorgin however more and more sites especially on android ecosystem running adguard app will popup a message asking you to disable adblock. Has anyone else came across that?

Hi cartaphilus — yes, anti-adblock checks are increasingly common, particularly in mobile sites and embedded Android WebViews. There is no universal bypass because sites use several different methods, including withholding the content entirely until an ad script loads.

The least troublesome arrangement is usually:

• Keep NextDNS for network-wide domain blocking.
• Use one page-level blocker per browser—either uBlock Origin or AdGuard’s content filtering, rather than both simultaneously.
• On Android, Firefox with the full uBlock Origin extension is generally the strongest browser option; uBO officially supports Firefox Android. It cannot affect native apps or their embedded browser views.

For a site showing the warning:

1. Update the filter lists in uBO or AdGuard and reload the page. uBO’s maintained lists explicitly accept fixes for anti-blocker mechanisms.
2. In AdGuard for Android, check Protection → Annoyance blocking, and confirm AdGuard Extra is enabled. Extra is intended for complex advertising and reinsertion techniques, and is included with AdGuard for Android (AdGuard documentation).
3. Test the blockers separately:
   • Disable uBO on that site and reload.
   • If unchanged, restore uBO and temporarily pause AdGuard filtering for that browser/site.
   • If it still happens, inspect the NextDNS log while loading the page. A DNS-blocked “bait” domain may be what the site uses to decide that an ad blocker is present.

That last case is awkward: DNS filtering cannot modify the page or remove its overlay. NextDNS itself notes that page-level cleanup requires a browser extension rather than DNS filtering (NextDNS help). You can temporarily allow the exact blocked domain to confirm the cause, but I would not broadly whitelist advertising or tracking domains just to satisfy one site.

The uBO element picker can hide a simple warning, but it will not help if the page also disables scrolling or never sends the article. For a persistent case, report the exact page through uBO’s report button; its filter project specifically handles anti-blocker reports (uAssets repository). Avoid random “anti-adblock killer” userscripts—those tend to become another brittle and unnecessarily privileged layer in the stack.

In short: NextDNS plus one properly maintained browser blocker is normally better than stacking NextDNS, AdGuard filtering and uBO against the same page. More blockers can mean more breakage, not necessarily more blocking.

Sources

• Settings | AdGuard Knowledge Base
• uBlockOrigin/uAssets
• Privacy, blocklist & ad-blocking - Knowledge Base - NextDNS Help Center

 

[Wrecker4923]

Yes, I use private DNS to block some ads. I only “surf the web” by reading news from Google’s feed, though, so:

• If a news site refuses to load without its ads, I block the site by asking Google not to suggest it.
• If a news site has a paywall, I block it.
• If a news site crashes in Chrome or is broken in some other way, I open it in Firefox with uBlock Origin. If neither works, I block the site.

So this only works for me because surfing isn’t all that important on my phone .

 

[Halp2001]

In my experience on desktop browsers, I've managed to overcome some of these anti-adblock messages by using a combination of uBlock Origin and the AdGuard browser extension.

I have configured them to avoid overlapping functionality: uBlock Origin handles most of the blocking, while AdGuard is limited to its Ad Blocking and Annoyances filters.

I should mention that I use both extensions in browsers that still support Manifest V2. This setup has worked well in my case, although results may vary depending on the browser and the websites involved.

I wouldn't consider it a universal solution, but it might be worth trying for users with a compatible browser.

 

[Ice Dream']

these are called admiral ads
they find a way to bypass this and show you the ad in a minimalistic way.
there's filter for it, no worry
uBO can read both ADP/AdGuard and some AdGuard Home snipplets.. not all but some
and what it can't read, it gives you a red marked word.
recently it's been glitchy even in fully supported Chromium browsers and that's thanks to Google
some functions been downgraded to make it compatible, hence why the real ones that supports it, gives you the direct option to add it via their third-party svr.
but even here it is the exact same story. FF on windows sucks recently
idk why... my frozen Win10 laptop runs a 2026 jan version and it's fine. I only had to disable eMudhra cert myself and that was it. I am perfect happy with Helium myself and if not, I'll go back to 147 Edge