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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by sputr on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:04AM (#10485866)
Actually, it can (and is routinely) done. https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers
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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by rewqfdsa on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:06AM (#10485869)
It's an arms race. Advertisers may be able to detect ad blockers in the short term, but eventually they will lose. That's because users control their machines and advertisers don't. Widespread use of adblock-blockers will only hasten this inevitable defeat.

The techniques used by the project to which you've linked can be trivially worked around by detecting the script itself and either not running it or telling it what it wants to hear. (Come on: an iframe? You really don't think a browser extension could lie about that? I expected at least some kind of server-client traffic correlation for a serious ad-blocker-blocker attempt.)

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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by userbinator on Sunday November 01, 2015 @10:59AM (#10486775)
That's because users control their machines

That is unfortunately not the case in all situations now (e.g. mobile devices).

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by jfoutz on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:45PM (#10487823)
It'll be interesting to see how it pans out. Some sites will play nice. It's easy to imagine buzzfeed just loading their image content from adservers though.
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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by rasz_pl on Sunday November 01, 2015 @03:58PM (#10488255)
Just clicked the demo http://www.lavancier.com/adblock/ and: "Ads are enabled in this browser. :)"

Now guess if I block ads?

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Re:The Devastating Effect of Ad-Blockers for Guru3D.com by bigbugbag on Sunday November 01, 2015 @03:50PM (#10488198)
Except this will be blocked by script blockers such as noscript which used to #1 most downloaded extension for firefox.
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