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I've seen one person go thermonuclear trying to prevent ad blocking, and it seriously sucks. Randomly generated content classes and IDs, shifting DOM elements a
by steckerbrett 11y ago
I've seen one person go thermonuclear trying to prevent ad blocking, and it seriously sucks. Randomly generated content classes and IDs, shifting DOM elements around to avoid them being targeted that way, and later on just completely removing all the divs from the area and manually painting large advertisements with primitives. Made scraping substantially more difficult, but of course not impossible.
One site that still has me beat dynamically loads all of the content and code through a websocket, and various bits are so heavily obfuscated that they look like brainfuck. Finding tools to tamper with SSL websockets is a challenge enough in its own right (Chrome has nicer tools now though).
- pki 11y agoFor the first one, you mean noscript.net? View source on that to see how they try to push their horrid super registry cleaner pro crap.
- BobLaw 11y agoInteresting. Link to that second site?
- zem 11y agoare you doing it for the sheer fun of beating the ad-blocker-blocker, or do you need the information off the site?
- steckerbrett 11y agoOne is screen scraping, one is attempting to find out how a product actually works. Neither goal has a monetary incentive so it is likely that people have got there before me.