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A subtle and clever way to prevent adblocks

Lucas Meine on March 08, 2019

Some websites are very direct about their adblocking policies. Who has never seen something like this before? Some of them even write complete a...
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Dian Fay

It'd be more efficient and probably more effective, seeing as you yourself turned off adblock in spite of your reluctance; however, it puts the developer on equal ethical footing with malware distributors. Deceiving users so they run code they don't want or intend to is, after all, how good old-fashioned trojans work.

The good news is that anti-adblock code still executes on your computer, so it's possible to block anti-adblockers. It's all a bit

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Lucas Meine

Didn't know about that extension, thank you Dian! And yeah, i thought so. Seems to be more effective at some point but isn't quite ethical.