New way of beating Adblock Plus?

Proxying ads

[peppuh]

Hi all,

today I visited one website, and I was surprised to see some Adsense ads (I use Adblock Plus). As I use Adsense in my websites, I was very curious to know how did they do it. After some investigation, I discovered that they use a "proxy" that will forward the query to Adsense's servers, and then return the ad content. It's not really obvious from the HTML code, as they use JavaScript to substitute the "IFRAME" tag "src" attribute.

Is that allowed by Google's terms and conditions?

[MyNewPC]

The rules are very clear. I suspect you are asking because you have done this yourself and you don't want to call attention to it by asking AdSense Support directly.

[tim222]

It's possible that they got permission from Google to do that. Larger advertisers can do things that the rest of us can not.

If they did it without Google's permission, then they're violating the "Site and Ad Behavior" section of the Program Policies.

[peppuh]

The rules are very clear. I suspect you are asking because you have done this yourself and you don't want to call attention to it by asking AdSense Support directly.

No, it's not me! :) I'm not willing to risk my account in order to get more money for 1 or 2 months, before they realize and suspend it. Also, I sent a question to Adsense support, but I wanted to post it here to share the information, and know if other people is also using it.