Topic: How aren't Bitcointalk ads blocked by ad blockers like ABP ? (Read 994 times)

It seems like the ad divs are encrypted, from DarkStar_'s post. I'm on mobile currently... (Screw you Google I want to use Dev tools)


Simple PHP logging every time either the server receives a GET request of the ad? Some sort of logging.

Theymos, how do you manage to have statistics on your ads ?

ABP's matching capability is limited. The forum's ads are structured so that it is impossible, within the limits of ABP, to block ads in general without blocking posts. Additionally, a carefully-designed ad will itself be impossible to block without blocking posts, but most advertisers don't bother to make ads in this way, so their specific ads can be blocked.

I've long wondered why the major Web advertisers like Google haven't pursued this sort of thing. In my research of how to accomplish this I even figured out a way to generically defeat ABP on most browsers using some JavaScript, assuming the ad is all inline (though this technique isn't what the forum does). I guess inline ads are difficult, though you'd think that it'd be possible with at least the most major websites.

I'd appreciate it if people not try to block ads. They are by far the forum's largest source of income, and they should not be at all annoying, since there's only one ad per page and I reject ads that are too flashy. I also recently adjusted the ads so that they should in no case be taller than ~50px, even on small screens. Plus, the ads are uniquely targeted to Bitcoiners, so you might find something interesting in the ads -- I've learned of several interesting services through forum ads.

Ads are blocked by ad blocker - but not with its default settings/configurations. After reading this post, i actually blocked all the ads on the forum.

I want tell you how i did it, because its a good source of revenue, but Theymos uses random dynamic id per/ad, which is added to an element, within a group of table rows... so when you block this ad, only a single instance of this ad should be blocked, and every other ads should be visible. if you try anything else, you'll end up blocking every post. Very smart.

Another thing with blocking ads, is that the forum ends up being more boring, less energetic. I personally use the ads as a source of crypto news for new services, so I'm going to disable ad-block for bitcointalk anyways.

Wrong. Posts look like this, with a