yah if someone is blocking the ads, there will just be an update to keep blocking the ads later on and on and on. new update block the ads again!! version 1.1.2.3.4.5
just logging in since my last post, yea but we have to evolve with the adblockers. Honestly, you can really increase your revenue if you stay vigilante.
Has anybody noticed that DigitalPoint has built in detection of ad blocking? (At least it seems that way) Go ahead and try to view this forum with ad blocking enabled and you will notice that the CSS does not load. It's a really handy trick that I'd definitely love to get my hands on. Is this a custom mod coded by the DP admins or is it available somewhere else?
That is the exact type of ad blocking counter measure I think needs to be developed. I believe in someones right to block ads if they want. I also believe in the publisher blocking the delivery of their pages to those that block ads. Eventually they will have to make a choice, stop blocking ads, or live with a smaller ranges of sites to digest.
I actually agree with that. A lot of webmasters out there serve their content to the world absolutely free and their source of income is through served ads. If the user doesn't want to see the ad then why should they be priviledged to view/read the content? At the same time we do know there are those out there who despise anything commercial on the internet like ads and they will whinge and moan about it all day. As was mentioned before, these types of people won't click on the ad anyway out of spite as they know you'll make money from it. In that respect whats the point of wasting an ad view on them? Probably none. Perhaps the ad network serving the ads can have some sort of detection system the publisher can enable if they so wish where their site becomes unreadable or the user is redirected to another page if they are blocking the ads. If that is something publishers would like say the word I'll add to a future release of AdToll!
well one things for certain, I created a way of stopping the blocking of ads but it so far only works for Google Adsense and of course its not 100% and it mostly hides the content if the ads are blocked. A user with some knowledge can easily unhide the content but most users will not know how so luckily it should work. My only thing is that I have to check that Google is ok with this before it can be used and I want to find a way to get it to work with other ad programs before I would release it (for free of course).
Off the top of my head I can't see why it would be against the Google TOS but yes you might want to check. I am sure a lot of webmasters out there would be curious as to how you managed to do that! Would be great if and when you release it.
it relies on javascript, I have a php version but I think it would be disastrous for sites with lots of traffic. The JavaScript version is quite small, I've emailed Google a few days back but yet to receive a response so I'm hoping that they aren't too strict about stopping content from showing if the ads aren't displayed (they may see it as forcing the user to view them)