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I'm interested in this just for analytical purpose. I'd like to see how many of my users do block ads, but they probably block 3rd party analytics also. My onl
by johnward 11y ago
I'm interested in this just for analytical purpose. I'd like to see how many of my users do block ads, but they probably block 3rd party analytics also.
My only question is: If users can block ads should content creators not be able to detect that and not serve the request?
It may be a horrible business decision but it only seems fair to me.
- whyenot 11y ago> My only question is: If users can block ads should content creators not be able to detect that and not serve the request? Yes, of course, but how are you going to do that, and is the end result going to be what you want? It seems to me like if a website goes down that road, it ends up in an arms race with some of its users and the authors of adblockers.
- johnward 11y agoI never said it was a good idea it just seems fair to be able to choose not "waste" bandwidth. Although the argument that hosting is becoming so cheap it doesn't matters could be made. The biggest issue with being able to detect ad blockers is that you could do something nefarious, so I understand why the blockers don't want to be detected. I could just imagine my someone going to an innocent site with an adblocker enable and getting goatse'd for example.