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Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking by Elhana on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:29AM (#11065438)
If you put a static ad image hosted on your own server on the page, something like http://wired.com/img/jhfkfhfuhi34cn2.jpg, ad blocker will not be able to distinguish it from other images and won't block it.

There is also common banner dimensions that get blocked, but it is easy to defeat by adding a pixel somewhere that fits into site design.

Problem with this approach is that you can't just slap some random ad network script there and be done with it, no targeted ads, tracking etc - basically everything people don't like and a reason to use ad blockers.

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Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking by chrischen on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @06:40AM (#11072059)
It's amazing why they don't just do this. Part of the reason why is that ad blocking is so easy, so most people will just do it... especially if it has the added benefit of removing the 5 second delay on YouTube videos due to ads.
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