How to fight ad blockers?

[Bunnyhop]

Originally posted by kamilla
I've heard more and more about these ad blockers and I really don't see why they created in the first place... I can understand popup blockers but banners...? lol

Curious if anyone have any info regarding how many % are surfing with ad blockers? And if so, is there a way to redirect those?

It's just another way to make money...people are bombarded with ads every day (both internet and RL) and when presented with an opportunity to rid themselves of some of that expoure...I'm sure many people think why not...especially if it's cheap or embedded in some other software they're buying. But the kicker is most of these softwares allow other ads/popups through that belong to them and their affiliates...they just block competition.

Really though while thinking about it the only reason I could care myself about using an ad blocker is to make my life easier when going to sites that like hijacking my browser window with a javascript based FPA that basically impedes my surfing until I locate their carefully hidden close link. While I know disabling javascript would solve that...so many sites use javascript for navigation and information displaying as well I'd have to turn it on/off regularly.

As for %s...I don't know of anything independant that lists any stats like this...I'm sure it'd be hard to pickup on since the ad blockers don't pass any information along the browser to the servers identifying them. Of course if anyone has some bright ideas about ad blocker detection I'm all ears =)