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Re:Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of ... by jefftk on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:44AM (#21899429)
Detecting ad blocking is very simple unless the ad blocker tries to work around it. You find some url pattern that the blocker matches (ex: "/ads.js"), and test whether it's blocked. No stalking, bad performance, etc, required.
Re:Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of ... by Nextgrid on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:30PM (#21900220)
My point is that it'll be worked around by blockers, which means they'll then implement more robust methods (which as a side-effect might break accessibility, see how Facebook splits the "sponsored" subtitle in lots of spans) and so on and so forth.

Instead, the ads should be done in such a way that most people don't have any incentive in blocking them (I personally would like to see ads provided that 1) they are vetted and 2) they are for products I'm interested in, based on the choices I make in my profile). Given that, the few outliers that would still end up blocking them wouldn't be a problem worth solving (you can always offer a paid tier to remove ads for the people that truly don't want any ads).