"You have an adblocker installed" workaround

I went to thetvdb.com site yesterday and much to my surprise, they won't let me in unless I subscribe or turn off my adblocker. Is there any workaround for this?

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uBlock Origin should prevent this, other ad-blockers might not have these bypass mechanisms.

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- I'm actually genuinely surprised that more people don't know about uBlock Origin.
  
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  It's all we talk about here lol
  
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- want to also add that people using ublock origin would probably benefit from enabling more than just the default filters.
  
  if you go into your extension prefs for UB, there's a lot of other stuff in there. I usually select everything except the other languages. I occasionally come across a site that has a 'we see youre using an adblocker' type message but its not very often. and even then, most of the ones that I have seen let me dismiss the message and still view the content.
  
  i don't use any social media except lemmy/reddit and the like tho, so no clue how it works on facebook and other trash like that.
  
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What adblocker? I'm using Ublock Origin and have no issues.

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- Using Wipr on iOS, which has no special abilities other than blocking ads using EasyList and don’t have any issues.
  
  Also, I don’t see why thetvdb would be so aggressive given their content is crowdsourced.
  
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Sorry everyone, you're right. Ublock origin does bypass this. I realised I was looking something up on my wife's PC last night who doesn't have it installed but my PC does and I have access, thanks all.

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- Let's hope you put Ublock on your wife's PC after that.
  
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Using noscript I approved the sites js, the cdn and jsdeliver. I am also running ublock and am getting no nags. This is on ff mobile for Android.

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- Exactly, except I'm on desktop. Didn't install NoScript on my mobile browser since it's somewhat of a pain managing NoScript and uBlock side-by-side for everything.
  
  I should learn how to sync my settings
  
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Is there a Ublock update?

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Try nextdns

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It seems to work fine on my browser. What adblock are you using?

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