The Adblock Project

SteveFark · Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,

I was just wondering if it was possible to ban Adblock users from my website by interpreting a Adblock header for example?

This is because without the income from the adverts on my site I wouldn't be able to pay for my servers, hence people blocking the adverts shouldn't be able use my bandwidth for free.

Please feel free to tell me how I'm wrong. Thanks,

Steve

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

you might want to read the environmental chemistry thread
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Blockeroonie · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 6

There should be no way to tell. All info gets sent to my browser, I choose what to display. There is a feature where the blocked content is never downloaded (which I would trun off), by which you might keep logs on your users (if there's a login), and you could ban someone who never seems to download ad content. That's your right, if you can implement it.

Animated, inline, flash based, audio, and inappropriate ads. I might whitelist a site if it were requested and the ads weren't annoying. Otherwise you'd have to force me to choose between adblock or your content - and you'd probably lose Wink

IceDogg · Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 109

probably?

hoqenishy · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

Drahken · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 107

One highly effective way to prevent people from seeing your content while blocking ads would be to serve the content from a directory that contains one or more commonly blocked strings (ie, "ads" or "doubleclick", etc). Then if people have ads blocked, they also have your site blocked (which is effectively the same as you blocking them from your site). This would be almost 100% effective if you used the same string as the advertising company/ies you're using (ie "yoursite.com/doubleclick/great-page.htm" with ads from doubleclick). If you're using (and are familiar with) some form of server-side scripting like PHP, you could have "yoursite.com/index.htm" contain a message telling people to unblock ads, then use PHP to overwrite it with the actual content (which will be served from the secured directory) in such a way so that visitors will get the actual content if they're not blocking ads, or the message page if they are blocking.

People running a site have as much right to try to block me for filtering ads as I have to block their ads. Likewise, I have as much right to try to bypass their blockade as they have to set it up in the first place, and they have as much right to try to block me from bypassing, etc, etc, ad infinitum. If someone tries to block me, I will either find a way around the block, or if I can't (or just don't feel like wasting that much effort), I'll simply go elsewhere. Very few sites have content which can't be found on at least a dozen others sites. If you want to lose visitors, that's your choice.

democritus · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Tacompton WA USA

The topic is off. You can't stop adblock users because you don't own the internet, control their browser, or have access to their OS.

What you CAN do is rephrase the question.

[b]"How do I make sure Adblock users can see my ads?"[/b]

I use adblock, noscript, and a custom hosts file. I haven't seen a doubleclick ad in months. I still see ads though. Text based ads. HTML based ads. ALT tags for images that were blocked. The difference is in the HOST.

Any ad that is an actual part of your domain, or carried on your bandwidth, AND is not flash, a gif, or javascript is still viewed by me.

You can safely host advertising, but you'll have to use your brain a little more. I'm not insulting you. I'm telling you that you'll have to do more work, but you'll make more money.

Contact google or any other REPUTABLE advertiser and read their instructions. Let them teach you how to patch ads into your site without getting blocked.

ONE WARNING:

Don't abuse this ability, because if you do host a lot of annoying shinola on your site, then I will do what all users do: Block your site, and add it to the adblock list. Then I won't see you or your ads at all.

Good luck.
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