Comments - How to block Adblock

#21 /* 2 years, 8 months ago */

Thanks a lot for this small&simple tutorial. I'll watch out for offering some payment methods to AdBlock users who won't accept some sponsors paying for them.

Best regards
Moe.
BonnParty.de

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Moe Anonymous User

#22 /* 2 years, 6 months ago */

Whyfirefoxisblocked.com wasn't hacked. Somebody just registered a similar domain: whyisfirefoxblocked.com.

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Andrew Wells Anonymous User

#23 /* 17 months, 27 days ago */

how can i know if somebody uses adblock or not? i would like to have a counter, so that i could know what percentage of my visitors use adblock

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hip Normal User

#24 /* 16 months, 15 days ago */

I don't use adblock, but I use NoScript. There are malicious sites out there, and NoScript has proven golden for me. NoScript DOES NOT block ads as long as they are not javascript-based. Personally, I don't want to support javascript ads that collect info. If someone wants to have an ad on his site, I would be glad to support him and even click the ad, but the ad must be PLAIN IMAGE with an A HREF link. Nothing else.

It is painful to see this ignorance perpetrated all over the web. AdBlock Plus blocks everything you wish it to block: scripts, Flash, little trinkets of code. Just specify the rule you wish blocked, it even takes sophisticated regular expressions (regexp).

Best of all -- people much more dedicated than you or I are blocking new ad sites that keep cropping up every day, and AdBlock.FiltersetG brings us that goodness EVERY WEEK without any extra effort on our part. It's totally automated.

NoScript is not only functionality-challenged, it is also a big annoyance because everytime you visit a website you need to whitelist it. This is overkill for almost every modern surfer to the extent that it is stupid. It's like browsing with cookie informants. If you like this anal style of surfing and throwing "baby with the bathwater" then go for it.

The rest of us will continue to use AdBlock Plus which doesn't hurt any good functionality at all, blocks ALL the ad networks and malicious spyware thanks to my rules, and does so without being a performance hog.

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Erick Anonymous User

#25 /* 15 months, 14 days ago */

Here is a way to detect if images are being blocked by AdBlock
Detect images blocked by AdBlock Plus

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Danny028 Anonymous User

#26 /* 15 months, 16 days ago */

I comment just because I dont wanna be lemon :-) Seriously... this left me quite empty. I have to bookmark this and read it few times more and wait the idea of how to make it useful. I'm content provider also and I dont understand why anyone uses adblock. I'm totally blind for adds, I really dont see them. I just found out that couple of my favorite websites has been full of adds for years. I concentrate so much to content that I really dont see anything else :-) But this post really ticks my nerve because adblock users are in my eyes group of people behaving certain way. So basicly they could directed the way that fits to them... Dunno, but its interesting though...

Cheers
Foge from Finland

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Foge Normal User

#27 /* 14 months, 30 days ago */

Noscript is ridiculously easy to defeat - simply place the whole page's content to css display: none; and rely on javascript to undo that. Further, if you do want them to see something use <noscript> tags for the message.

From the point of view of the website owner I'd rather not be have the visit and the attendant increase in hosting fees than deliver the page without ads. You can't go out and buy a newspaper with all the ads removed - why should you be able to do this with web pages?

Adblocking static ads is the ultimate display of narcissism and pettiness in my opinion. I can understand blocking popups, popunders and interstatics but static ads placed quietly into the flow of the page? No.

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Michael Normal User

#28 /* 14 months, 28 days ago */

what is this $E thing? it won't work in my javascript

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Gerry Anonymous User

#29 — Author comment /* 14 months, 28 days ago */

That's Mootools for "select the element with...". In this case it goes off and looks for the first iframe object inside a .myTestAd element. Writing equivilant JS without a framework can be tiresome.

I've since moved on to jQuery. The code would be more like:

$(function(){
if ($(".myTestAd iframe")get(0).clientHeight == 0)
alert("You are blocking my beautiful adverts, you swine!");
});

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Oli Numero Uno

#30 /* 12 months, 4 days ago */

The test page works fine with FireFox (with and without ABP), but note that it is reporting a false positive with IE7. No false positives with Chrome or Safari.

Anyway, thanks for the code. I plan to use it on my site for tracking purposes.

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Bert Anonymous User

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