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