Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming
by gruez on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:52PM
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yes, but it will have to operate outside the DOM. currently adblock killer/detection scripts relies on the fact that resources/scripts fail to load (both can be detected), or an element isn't showing (the nag message is hidden under the place where the ad should be). if your browser is dutifully rendering the ads as intended, but blocks it out in the frame buffer, there's nothing the site can do. no such adblocker exists as of yet.
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Which means you loose a lot if the benefits of an ad blocker, and thus makes it worthwhile to instead invest in the arms race: You have to watch a black screen for the duration of video ads, ads that pop up overlaying content still get in your way, you loose the bandwidth/memory/CPU capacity for loading and rendering them.
Loose == !Tight
Lose == !Win