Comments for How to block Adblock

Thanks a lot for this small&simple tutorial. I'll watch out for offering some payment methods to AdBlock users who won't accept some sponsors paying for them.

Best regards
Moe.
BonnParty.de

Whyfirefoxisblocked.com wasn't hacked. Somebody just registered a similar domain: whyisfirefoxblocked.com.

how can i know if somebody uses adblock or not? i would like to have a counter, so that i could know what percentage of my visitors use adblock

I don't use adblock, but I use NoScript. There are malicious sites out there, and NoScript has proven golden for me. NoScript DOES NOT block ads as long as they are not javascript-based. Personally, I don't want to support javascript ads that collect info. If someone wants to have an ad on his site, I would be glad to support him and even click the ad, but the ad must be PLAIN IMAGE with an A HREF link. Nothing else.

It is painful to see this ignorance perpetrated all over the web. AdBlock Plus blocks everything you wish it to block: scripts, Flash, little trinkets of code. Just specify the rule you wish blocked, it even takes sophisticated regular expressions (regexp).

Best of all -- people much more dedicated than you or I are blocking new ad sites that keep cropping up every day, and AdBlock.FiltersetG brings us that goodness EVERY WEEK without any extra effort on our part. It's totally automated.

NoScript is not only functionality-challenged, it is also a big annoyance because everytime you visit a website you need to whitelist it. This is overkill for almost every modern surfer to the extent that it is stupid. It's like browsing with cookie informants. If you like this anal style of surfing and throwing "baby with the bathwater" then go for it.

The rest of us will continue to use AdBlock Plus which doesn't hurt any good functionality at all, blocks ALL the ad networks and malicious spyware thanks to my rules, and does so without being a performance hog.