Anti-AdBuster

[Eutychus]

I received the following today in an e-zine for web developers:
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AntiAdBuster is a script that detects when your visitors use some sort of ad-blocker to avoid seeing your ads. It can be called from your Web pages (currently PHP and ASP versions are available).

If any visitor uses an ad-blocker to block the ads on your site, AntiAdBuster stops that page, and displays a friendly message to the user to let them know that you've stopped their ad-blocker from viewing your site.

Now, using AntiAdBuster, you have the power to stop ad-blockers and site grabbers, and protect your site.

Antiadbuster not only protects you from ad-blockers, but it also protects your site from dangerous site grabbers/offline browsers which can download your entire site on to the user's hard disk."
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Both as a web developer and as an Internet surfer NOTHING angers me more than the increase in pop-ups and pop-unders. I have patiently waited for this rude invasion to pass. Now someone has created a script to help prolong those annoying things!

I make a habit of avoiding sites that make use of pops. I have also avoided the pop-disablers because they can defeat new windows when I click on some links.

I'm just unhappy that the script has been widely distributed to webmasters. To me, it is like sending live ammunition to terrorists.

In a way, the script might actually help those who use the pop defeaters by letting them know which sites to avoid.

Sorry to vent, but I detest any window that pops up/under without my clicking on a link. Even more than I dislike scripts that disable Right-Clicking.

[iisbob]

Interesting, i wonder how it'll work with browsers like Opera that have the option to stop pop-ups included in the actual browser engine?

Hmmm, since Opera works by detecting when a script wants to open more than one document window and allows/disallows this based on internal settings-no 3rd party scripts for another program to detect, this will be interesting to watch.



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[Rick]

I think you may find that script will also stop the page from loading
If the ad blocker stops the AD on the top of a page from loading..

[john5211]

First, I think Rick is correct; there was nothing in the origonal literature that was specific to pop-up ads, the poster just sort of focused on them.

In either case, though, a basic ad blocker blocker (kind of like radar detector detector, eh?) should (in principle) be able to work by keep lists of machines that request both the main content and the ad/popup/whatever.

If you hold of on serving both of them until you make sure that you have a request for each, then I think you can defeat the first generation Ad/Pop Up blockers.

Of course, if you have a smart Ad Blocker/Proxy (like Proxomitron) then I think it should be a pretty simple task to write a filter to defeat the ad blocker blocker (even if it works better than the one I just described).

John