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Can a website defeat adblock just for non-invasive google adsense?

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Vageetasjn

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Is there a way for a website to retain functioning adsense ads even where a user has adblock installed? It seems awfully harsh to prevent a website from earning revenue from mere text ads, which are sometimes even helpful.
 
you mean those annoying underlined words that pop up a huge text block if you so-much-as brush by it with your mouse?

I hope not...
 
Last I heard, by default, AdBlock allows "non-intrusive advertising". A list of allowed advertising is here. I'm not sure how hard it is to get on that list, or if any ad networks are already on there.

Edit: Of course, people like me can just turn that setting off. :twisted:
 
Do you know that a large percentage of your users are using AdBlock? I would expect the percentage to be low, unless your have a site geared towards technical people.

I imagine this kind of advertising will generate even less revenue once browsers start enabling Do Not Track by default (which it looks like IE 10 will be doing).
 
veri745 said:
you mean those annoying underlined words that pop up a huge text block if you so-much-as brush by it with your mouse?

I hope not...
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Adsense is Google's advertising system. Most of the ads are text-based. They are all just normal, banner-type ads. They are probably the least annoying ads on the internet. You could have learned all of this by running a simple Google search.
 
The only thing you achieve by this is getting the user who does not want to see ads pissed and he won't visit your page again unless you have some very special thing going which he finds nowhere else (probably not the case).
 
Best bet is not using ad networks and having your own setup that uses the same server as the site. Harder to block that way, and use non standard images sizes. I've been wanting to redo one of my sites and revive it, and I'll probably setup my own ad system to get around adblock. Because of everyone these days blocking the popular ad networks, networks like adsense are not as profitable.

While I am completely against invasive ads, non invasive ads are still essential to help cover the costs of keeping a site running.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Best bet is not using ad networks and having your own setup that uses the same server as the site. Harder to block that way, and use non standard images sizes. I've been wanting to redo one of my sites and revive it, and I'll probably setup my own ad system to get around adblock. Because of everyone these days blocking the popular ad networks, networks like adsense are not as profitable.

While I am completely against invasive ads, non invasive ads are still essential to help cover the costs of keeping a site running.
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Ad revenue will become even more difficult to come by when Do Not Track starts getting enabled by default in browsers.
 
I find it funny. If an ad really is "non-invasive" I won't notice it and hence it is useless by definition. In reality is you will notice it and hence it does change how the page looks and hence it is "invasive".

But then it depends what you mean with invasive.
 
I thought Adblock recently made the change where the google text ads weren't blocked by default.

If someone chooses to block them though there's no way to reliably get around it without breaking Adsense terms of service (proxy import them into the page).
 
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