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How to block the Admiral anti ad-block detection message

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I don't mind seeing the occasional banner or text ad while browsing web sites. What I do mind is malvertising, auto-playing videos (despite steps taken by browsers to stop auto-play) and excessive ads that slow down my browser to the point where it affects the user experience. This is on a modern quad-core desktop PC with 16 GB of RAM.  To that end, I gave in and installed uBlock Origin a few years ago. If ads and third-party tracking hadn't gotten so bad, I would not have had to resort to an ad-blocker. These days, sites are fighting back. They're using ad-block detection scripts in order to request that you whitelist their site. In some cases, I am happy to do this. Recently, I've seen a new one with the logo "Powered by Admiral", which pops up a modal and asks you to whitelist.  These are usually on sites that have a ton of auto-play videos and Taboola ads ("Doctors hate this one weird trick!"). I get it. Sites need ad revenue to fund thei