incrediBILL - 6:21 pm on Mar 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

I ran a test for a week that booted anyone with AdBlock or javascript disabled to a page telling them to enable javascript and disable Adblock and it let them back in to the site.

Some people complied, most of the deadbeats just went away which didn't bother me at all.

However, I found a snag with some other technology and I can't find my notes at the minute, but there was a casualty caused that was unintended so for that reason only I pulled the ad blocker buster until I get time to resolve the conflict.

There was a huge thread about this topic 5 years ago which is still relevant today:
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Then is came back for a rousing Part 2:
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couldn't this get mostly solved if the ad networks gave the publishers the tools to self host the ads?

For text ads, yes.

For standard size banner ads, no.

The ad blockers block downloading all standard banner size images from the page.