How do I turn off AD block on the steam Browser?

[Pixe]

idk how to turn it off you guys know how? i cant join some sites like on tf2center and when i want to join a game i have to turn off tf2 and to get the ip

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

There no AD block on Steam, if talking about warning just click the link to proceed, and no warning can't be disabled.

If you're using browser like Firefox, brave, chrome, or etc, then disable your Adblock.

[Pixe]

i dont have an AD block on chrome when i try to get in tf2center whit steam it says to "turn off ad block to be able to join"

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Pixe⭐:

i dont have an AD block on chrome when i try to get in tf2center whit steam it says to "turn off ad block to be able to join"

It's possible for that web site to be bugged. Steam doesn't come with any ad (not an abbreviation) blockers so unless you have something else that interferes with the traffic, the web site is bugged.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Not much else I can tell you.

Try deleting your cache, and cookies I guess.

[Pixe]

it has some problems whit chrome while on firefox it works perfectly, My friend can open it whit steam

[Pixe]

ok

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Not much else I can tell you.

Try deleting your cache, and cookies I guess.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Pixe⭐:

it has some problems whit chrome while on firefox it works perfectly, My friend can open it whit steam

I spoke of traffic filtering before. Something on your computer, on your network or your ISP may act as an ad filter.

[Pixe]

hmm

[Darren]

To be clear ad filtering is a tricky thing to detect (web browsers don't advertise they are filtering ads to the server). Usually it is done via detecting a failure to load certain assets. It's possible that the slimmed down browser used in Steam is just failing to load one or more of those assets anyway (or making the detection logic detect that it has even if it did load it) causing a false positive flagging by the website.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Darren:

To be clear ad filtering is a tricky thing to detect

It's pretty easy to detect if it's not on the ISP: computers & networks don't have filtering be default so the only reason for it to be there is for the user to have installed it. Now, assuming the user doesn't suffer from dementia, the user can detect "yes, I remember having installed that filter". Detecting on the ISP level is a bit trickier, but any respectable ISP would inform the user of the filtering when asked.

[Darren]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Darren:

To be clear ad filtering is a tricky thing to detect

It's pretty easy to detect if it's not on the ISP: computers & networks don't have filtering be default so the only reason for it to be there is for the user to have installed it. Now, assuming the user doesn't suffer from dementia, the user can detect "yes, I remember having installed that filter". Detecting on the ISP level is a bit trickier, but any respectable ISP would inform the user of the filtering when asked.

Sorry I meant ad filtering is difficult to detect by *websites* i.e. that this is very possibly being falsely flagged by the websites because it's not there there is an official ads were blocked that is sent to the website. It's all about attempting to detect whether something isn't available that should be, something which can get flagged simply by a stripped-down browser failing to render a file correctly.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Darren:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

It's pretty easy to detect if it's not on the ISP: computers & networks don't have filtering be default so the only reason for it to be there is for the user to have installed it. Now, assuming the user doesn't suffer from dementia, the user can detect "yes, I remember having installed that filter". Detecting on the ISP level is a bit trickier, but any respectable ISP would inform the user of the filtering when asked.

Sorry I meant ad filtering is difficult to detect by *websites* i.e. that this is very possibly being falsely flagged by the websites because it's not there there is an official ads were blocked that is sent to the website. It's all about attempting to detect whether something isn't available that should be, something which can get flagged simply by a stripped-down browser failing to render a file correctly.

I absolutely agree here. I've gotten a heap loads of "turn off your ad blocker"-banners without having any ad blockers running. As you said, stripped-down browsers are ratrher likely to trigger that. All too many coders go "It works on my setup->it works" when testing and "if an ad isn't loading, it's an ad blocker and no way ANYTHING else" when developing. The latter may not stem from the coder but from some boneheaded manager though.

[ペンギン]

Originally posted by Pixe⭐:

idk how to turn it off you guys know how? i cant join some sites like on tf2center and when i want to join a game i have to turn off tf2 and to get the ip

As mentioned there is no "adblock". This browser's as full of holes as a swiss cheese ~

There are also some (big) gaming companies and payment service provider around here which abuse the system for their own (ingame) advertising, cookies, mail harvesting, referal & funnel analytics, affiliate marketing and crossover tracking campaigns with the help of ad networks and many 3rd party stuff.

The Steam browser should never be used at any time, including the Overlay which supports the whole mechanic and sending data by it's own. Best to switch off.

As it is now it's security and privacy compromising. Besides, it's none of neither Valve nor developer business which sites someone visit or open or where do you come from.

Example for some user agents used for referal tracking:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 10.0; en-US; Valve Steam Tenfoot/1568941497; ) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.157 Safari/537.36

Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0 (client;windows;16;1565473496)

Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0

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