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Actually, it can (and is routinely) done. https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers
by sputr 11y ago
Actually, it can (and is routinely) done.
https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers
- rewqfdsa 11y agoIt's an arms race. Advertisers may be able to detect ad blockers in the short term, but eventually they will lose. That's because users control their machines and advertisers don't. Widespread use of adblock-blockers will only hasten this inevitable defeat. The techniques used by the project to which you've linked can be trivially worked around by detecting the script itself and either not running it or telling it what it wants to hear. (Come on: an iframe? You really don't think a browser extension could lie about that? I expected at least some kind of server-client traffic correlation for a serious ad-blocker-blocker attempt.)
- userbinator 11y agoThat's because users control their machines That is unfortunately not the case in all situations now (e.g. mobile devices). http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
- jfoutz 11y agoIt'll be interesting to see how it pans out. Some sites will play nice. It's easy to imagine buzzfeed just loading their image content from adservers though.
- bigbugbag 11y agoExcept this will be blocked by script blockers such as noscript which used to #1 most downloaded extension for firefox.
- rasz_pl 11y agoJust clicked the demo http://www.lavancier.com/adblock/ http://www.lavancier.com/adblock/ and: "Ads are enabled in this browser. :)" Now guess if I block ads?