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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by wvenable on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:31AM (#17013498)
Ad blockers will block images that are standard banner ad size. Maybe a text ad has "ad" somewhere in it's in CSS. We do only internally hosted ads and non-JS text sidebar ads and they're happily blocked by all major ad blockers. Doing everything "right" is no defense.

I'm not saying you can't make ads completely indistinguishable from content but I also don't think that's the solution that we want either.

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by pas on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:36PM (#17015202)
Some people just don't want ads. Paradoxically, the sites I care most about are the ones I want to periodically visit, and enjoy without the ads. So the ad blocker will have filters fine tuned for those.

Is that a sustainable business model? Well, no. There's a direct donation on sites nowadays luckily.

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by JepZ on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:28PM (#17015122)
Thanks :-) I didn't know they also look for common banner sizes.