Even though I try not to visit the forbes.com site anymore due to their heavy usages of ads, anti adblocker and overwhelming number of cookies they’re trying to push, sometimes however I accidentally follow a tweet that leads to forbes.com and just notice it to late.

Besides wasting your bandwidth, mobile data and especially time there have been a few occasions were the forbes.com page was actually serving malware from their adfeeds.

It annoys me bigtime so let’s “fix” this:

First thing that happens upon visiting the forbes site is that you get a blurred background with a random ad or quote of the day and you need to press Continue to article:

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If you open the Developer console in Chrome (Application tab) you can see that Forbes uses a cookie that expires in 24 hours. This cookie make sure that you don’t see the “welcome” ad for 24 hours:

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So let’s make this cookie valid for a bit longer, this is easy with the EditThisCookie extension. On the forbes.com page click on EditThisCookie and select the dailyWelcomeCookie:

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Click on the Expiration date and select something in the future, then Click Set and Submit changes:

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Then there is an anti adblocker popup:

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You can get rid of it by adding this line to your adblock plus options @@||forbes.com^$generichide.

But as I started at the beginning of the post, my best recommendation is to just avoid the forbes.com page.