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The target audience is website owners. If my users are all using list based blockers (adblock, uBlock, mobiles, proxies, ...) and those lists block my content,
by patd 8y ago
The target audience is website owners.
If my users are all using list based blockers (adblock, uBlock, mobiles, proxies, ...) and those lists block my content, I'd like to know quickly so I can appeal to the list maintainers.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoEven in the rare instance you convince a list maintainer, forking a list is trivial. If your content is being blocked, stop tracking your users.
- yorwba 8y agoWhat if it's a false positive due to overly-broad heuristics? For example, try looking at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ads https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ads with Adblock enabled. It shows a blank page for me. (Actually I just wanted to see whether "ads" might have a different meaning in another language.)
- fivefive55 8y agoI've been noticing this a lot more lately. Lots of websites have broken elements from my adblocker. I have to turn it off and reload the page to get those elements to load. A lot of the time they aren't even close to ads, it's like a drop down menu or button that doesn't render.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoThough false positives happen, an ad can also contain the code for another part of the site. Most common is a site using some kind of Google script that could be an ad or tracking.
- patd 8y agoThe goal of the service is not to be an anti adblock tool. It's futile and publishers I've discussed with start to realize this more and more. The goal is to let you know if you're about to be impacted by a false positive. I've been there and it sucks as your users leave your site or contact your support team.
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