Re:Show HN: Detect Adblock
by thecus on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:53AM
(#11073508)
It's a valiant effort, but there's really no way they'll win this battle. The client simply has too much control.
I was toying with writing a chrome extension for sites/videos that behave differently when adblock is running. It shouldn't be too hard to make the site believe that the ad content is running, when it's not actually running.
Not a perfect approach, but if bandwidth / compute / memory is not an issue, it could be a novel way to respond to more sophisticated ad block detect mechanisms that come out.
Re:Show HN: Detect Adblock
by amorgan on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:20AM
(#11073721)
The purpose of our method is to detect the usage of ad blockers for informational purposes. For example, if you have a site that displays ads you'd probably like to know how many of your visitors are blocking them.
I was toying with writing a chrome extension for sites/videos that behave differently when adblock is running. It shouldn't be too hard to make the site believe that the ad content is running, when it's not actually running.
Not a perfect approach, but if bandwidth / compute / memory is not an issue, it could be a novel way to respond to more sophisticated ad block detect mechanisms that come out.