>It's more like you've erected a billboard, and the Campaign Against Ugly Billboards have given some people AR glasses which edit out the billboard .. and a bit

>It's more like you've erected a billboard, and the Campaign Against Ugly Billboards have given some people AR glasses which edit out the billboard .. and a bit more of your storefront. It's not really in the same category as fraudulent Yelp reviews. But your analogy misses a key aspect which is that the adblocker breaks the app entirely. It's not like just hiding my storefront, it's preventing users from entering the store at all unless they completely disable the device. Often those same users don't realize that these blocklist update silently in the background and it's their adblocker that is breaking the application that they have been using every day for years. > I think you'd be better off just accepting this. I think I worded that poorly. I do accept this. If you don't want to use an aspect, or want to render something your own way, I'm happy to let you! But I'm not happy when you start imposing those restrictions on others who don't know it's happening and don't know why core aspects of the app aren't working. Informed decisions are good, blanket disabling or breaking applications because a developer "knows better" isn't. Useragent issues I can work around, bugs can be fixed, and those who don't want that part of the app to work are happy. But I can't work around an adblocker blocking things for users that don't want then blocked. If I work around it I'm then "tracking" those who are attempting to block it (and IMO should be called out for it), and if I do nothing I lose users and paying customers who will move to competitors which for some reason are not blocked. (And I don't blame them, my app doesn't work, so why would you stick with it?) > ublock Origin blocks bits of Amazon within the website But back a year or so ago, it blocked the entire google.com/shopping URL, and the shopping.google.com subdomain (I haven't checked if it still does). The entire service blocked because someone somewhere decided it wasn't worth it, but Amazon and eBay and AliExpress all only have some elements blocked because it's somehow different. And while you can go in and re-enable those parts, it takes a long time and a good amount of technical know how of things like globbing and regex to whitelist it correctly. And then must be repeated on every device you use.