The silly thing about these kinds of tricks is that it shows they aren’t even thinking about why they’re being blocked. If it was just some simple text or an i

The silly thing about these kinds of tricks is that it shows they aren’t even thinking about why they’re being blocked. If it was just some simple text or an img tag, no one would block it and the ad would work without tricky markup. Since the typical ad is an obnoxious piece of trash though, I reserve the right to aggressively block anything I can. They will lose that war.