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surfers adapt VERY quickly. they do not, nor do they want to, think about what software is doing what. they forget the ad blocker is even running, just like their anti-virus software, firewall, etc. they are not going to come to your page and say, "hey there should be content here, i bet my ad blocker is stoping me from seeing it." they are going to say "ok, what the fuck is wrong with this jack pole's site." as the close the window and navigate else where.

Valid comments. If it were just a few sites doing this then they would quickly go on to the next site assuming “jack pole’s” site is fucked.

The add blockers I have seen replace the image or text link with an ugly message that an add has been blocked so they do no what is happening and what is causing it.

When the surfer begins to be presented with a gallery formats of blocked adds they might just realise they are missing out on content.

Still just a few such sites and they are not going to worry about it anyway.

If even 20% or 30% of site adopted this then chances are they would start to get annoyed with whatever was blocking their access and look at how to disable it.

Another point – I would be happy to piss any of these surfers off my sites – let them go an waste someone else bandwidth. They are not going to (or even able to) buy anyway.

I know this idea will not work simply from the feed back I am getting her.

I will be putting any movie link thumbs into a banners directory for sure because even if this simple technique will not will not stop the problem it still can save ME real Gigabytes.