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They try, which ended up just making a certain adblocker much more effective.

Even with web integrity, I don’t see anti-Adblock working. We’re almost at the point that client side AI can screen capture the web page and recreate it sans-ads.

And there are probably simpler solutions to bypass anti-adblock

Maybe not prevent entirely, but I am sure they can make it extremely inconvenient to block. Part of the reason I pay for Youtube Premium is that it would be just too much of a hassle to set up PiHole and manage it, to get that ad-free experience across all of my devices.

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Ads being trackers, and especially being a vector for malware is nothing new, yes screw ads, I block them, but I really don’t give a hoot if my neighbour blocks ads. I’m certainly not gonna go out of my way to preach the gospel of adblocking.

And part of the reason is the above - more people blocking ads will probably cause ad companies to make ad blocking more inconvenient, and you will end up with the same situation - only tech literate people will block ads.

Now don’t get me wrong, that is not the reason, just a reason, mostly I just don’t give a fuck if others block ads.

However when it comes to the idea in the OP, the reason does become more salient, because someone is going out of their way to preach the gospel of adblocking.

Obviously my original point was a bit lighthearted, realistically it doesn’t matter, I doubt any dev who would do this is making products to reach masses that do not already adblock, so this shit is probably just some virtue signaling anyway.

If you're not serving data from a popular ad server like google/doubleclick there will always be a false positive or two, especially with things like hosts-based ad blockers that are extremely rudimentary but work ~60-70% of the time.

And if you manage to serve data from doubleclick then either you're working for them or something has gone horribly wrong. In either case just putting up a script to say "please use an ad blocker" is the least of your concerns.

Not all ad blockers remove elements from web pages, and if they acted that predictably you could detect the ad blocker by detecting whether an expected element is hidden.

I have not looked through an ad blocker's code, but I don't believe it is that simple.

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If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing a little bit.

I believe you're referring to iPhone's clean energy charging feature. Here's my question: if you can use clean energy, why wouldn't you? It might make very little difference to the environment, but a little difference is still a difference.

Still, using ad-blockers is really not like that iPhone feature:

1. That feature relies on the grid itself, meaning it's useless for a lot of people that have basically no clean energy where they live, while ad-blockers can be useful to anyone using the internet.
2. It may be to the user's detriment, while ad-blockers improve user experience.
3. It's device dependent, whereas ad-blockers are available to virtually everyone, not just iPhone users.
4. Ad-blockers can be combined with clean energy charging.

The impact ad-blockers can have on the environment is similar to iPhone's clean energy charging in the same way a healthy diet is similar to eating a carrot. Yes, on the surface level they do just reduce your consumption of fossil fuel-generated energy, but ad-blockers reduce your energy consumption overall, not just trade it for green energy (that still requires tons of fossil fuels to be burned).

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Step one is you don't refuse files from the server, and try to answer as if you have them when asked in js. But the current actual methods and arms race is happening by comparing computed results, how your page is rendered according to your own browser when probed, vs how the detection code expects it rendered. Adblockers do things like lie, or inject things that can look close enough to ads that you pass the tests. You can see how detection works and try to sidestep what it does by looking at libraries like these https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock

This one in particular will probably just not run in uBlock out of the box so this one's pretty easy to sidestep. But you can stuff code like this obscured in your site and another piece of code that checks that it hasn't been removed. It's pretty difficult for website develops to win this fight, since ultimately they're letting us download and render their pages with fairly transparent technology.

In uBlock Origin, you can add filters.

Either those you download from the internet, or you can go add items yourself by clicking the uBlock Origin icon and selecting the "item picker".

Then just click on the item you want to block.

There are more advanced ways to block stuff, like based upon content. I used this to block all the "suggested for you" posts on Facebook.

Ads can mean many things. It could be short for something (for example Active Directory Settings). I remember getting something legitimate blocked like 10 years ago but nothing in recent years so I imagine the detection got better at dealing with that.

I'd have to look up how to do it, but I'll definitely have to try this to see what happens.

As a total HTML/CSS noob, I'll definitely have to look up how to do this. I'll probably end up trying it on the other site just in case I royally mess up my main site by accident. I at least have immediate backups for the other site right now, so I don't mind experimenting with it.

Encouraging and forcing is different. Just because forcing ad blocker on people is aligned with so many people's view doesn't mean that it is a great move. Anything that is forced on people is an asshole move.