What Else Is Your Ad Blocker Hiding on The Gateway Pundit and Is Gateway Pundit Being Targeted?

The Gateway Pundit readers have seen videos, comments and even news photos vanish. Here’s how ad blockers decide what you see — and how to get the missing pieces back.

Our IT Department responds to tech support questions and emails for The Gateway Pundit. Readers write to us because an article invites them to watch a video, but there’s no video on the page. Others scroll to the bottom to see what people are saying, only to find the entire Disqus comments section missing. One especially frustrating problem comes after a reader has taken the time to fill out a form. The little reCAPTCHA box that lets them verify they’re human never appears, so they can’t send what they’ve written.

From the reader’s side of the screen, it sure looks like something’s wrong with TGP. In the cases I’ve helped resolve this way, TGP hadn’t turned off the comments or taken down the video. The reader changed one setting, and the missing feature came back.

If this is happening to you, try this first. While you’re on TheGatewayPundit.com, click your ad blocker’s icon and pause blocking for this website. If you use Brave, click the lion beside the address bar and lower Shields for this site. Then reload the same article or form. If the video or comments come back, you’ve learned something about what was getting in the way. You can keep your usual settings everywhere else.

And if you’d prefer to read TGP without our standard display ads, TGP Plus is $7.99 a month. It’s another way to support the reporting you come here to read. Some third-party video players serve their own ads, and some low-impact native ads may still appear.

How does an ad blocker decide what disappears?

Many popular ad blockers rely on EasyList, a public set of filtering rules maintained outside TGP. Some rules stop a browser from downloading something. Others tell it to hide a particular part of a page. If a rule hides a box, everything inside that box disappears from view. It makes a difference whether that box holds a banner ad or a photograph you need to understand the story.

Ad blockers are designed to break things; sometimes they break things other than just the ads on a website, thanks to the way EasyList rules and filters are written.

TGP receives an unusual amount of attention in that list. In the November 10, 2026 edition we examined, ten rules for hiding page elements explicitly named TheGatewayPundit.com. Seven named TGP alone. Three included other sites. Of the 7,811 distinct hostnames explicitly named in rules of this kind, only 97 appeared ten or more times. TGP appeared in more of those rules than 98% of the hostnames named in them. The Washington Post appeared in 14, The New York Times and CNN in 13 each, and Fox News in six.

What you gain and what you can lose

I understand the appeal of an ad blocker. Nobody enjoys an ad that covers the paragraph they’re reading or a video that suddenly starts talking. Blocking ads can reduce data use. Blocking trackers can give readers more privacy. On a phone with a slow connection, those benefits matter.

Again… TGP Plus with ad-free content is $7.99 a month.

But there’s a cost when a filter hides something you came to see. If we quote someone in an interview and include the video, you ought to be able to hear the words for yourself. In April 2026, for example, a reader told the EasyList forum that TGP’s Disqus comments would appear only after AdBlock was turned off. I’ve heard the same from those who’ve written to TGP Tech Support when they can’t see the comments sections on articles.

There’s a financial cost, too. You can help pay for a story without ever clicking an ad. Many display ads pay the publisher when the ad appears. When a blocker stops it from loading, TGP loses that opportunity to earn revenue. The writer still did the reporting. The editor still worked on the story. Hosting, security, and tech support still cost money. Advertising helps us keep that reporting free, including for readers who can’t afford a subscription.

So here’s my request. If you enjoy TGP, please consider allowing ads on TheGatewayPundit.com. If an ad covers a story or makes a page hard to use, I want to know about that, too. Send the article link, your browser and device, and what you saw. If you’d rather skip the standard display ads and support us directly, choose TGP Plus for $7.99 a month. And if that missing video is what brought you here in the first place, go back to the article, pause your blocker for TGP, and give the page a reload.