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by Mike Masnick

Tue, Oct 2nd 2001 4:14pm





Ad Blocker Blocker

from the the-battle-rages-on dept

I finally tested out one of those pop up ad blockers a few weeks ago and eventually uninstalled it. While it worked ok most of the time, it also prevented me from getting to many legitimate websites. Anyway, it seems that many websites are fighting back against the ad blockers with their own ad blocker blocker. If it senses that you're using an ad blocker, it sends you to a page telling you you're not allowed to view their site until you turn off your ad blocker. How long until we get the ad blocker blocker blocker?

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    actually..

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    mhh5, Oct 2nd, 2001 @ 11:35pm

    I'm working on the ad blocker^7... ;)

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  2.  

    Why?

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    Questioner, Oct 3rd, 2001 @ 12:57am

    Why would you want to view a site that won;t let you look at it unless you look at their adverts? Screw 'em. Just go somewhere else and then they'll find out the real cost of annoying adverts!

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    Re: Why?

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    Anonymous Coward, Oct 3rd, 2001 @ 5:54am

    Hey dumbass, why would they want you looking at their site if you are not generating ad revenue?

    All you are doing with your spiffy ad blocker is stealing their bandwidth.

    Good ridance to you!

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    by by text browsers?

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    Brandon, Oct 3rd, 2001 @ 11:11am

    The article implied that the way this works is by detecting whether or not the browser is showing images or not... which probably means they are setting a cookie on the image load, and if you aren't sending back that cookie, than they block you. Which actually isn't that hard to work around... unless you are using a text based browser, or how about a browser for the blind?

    Brandon

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