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There are sites which do display just such a message, so it's clearly not as hard as it might first sound. If you think about it, it can be as simple as just d
by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
There are sites which do display just such a message, so it's clearly not as hard as it might first sound.
If you think about it, it can be as simple as just displaying a message 'underneath' an area of the screen where the blocked content would appear. Blocked content = displayed message.
- manigandham 12y agoI understand your example but for most publishers, it's not about blocking the content but rather blocking the user if they have adblock installed. The only way to do that is if you serve the content and then perhaps have a request to some ads or a resource that looks like an ad and will get blocked. When the request fails, you catch it and then "hide" the content from the user or only request the content in the first place after this check. This is fragile though since the plugins can just unblock that testing resource very easily, and some already do manipulate sites like this. Either way, this sounds easy but can require lots of tech resources, SEO workarounds, accessibility requirements, etc. Just not a turnkey option. PageFair is a company that tries to offer this but they been put into the various adblock rules and are now pretty much ineffective which shows the constant arms race... and this is a company working on this fulltime.