Detecting AdBlocking software?

Question

I was recently visiting a site and noticed that the page had a section that said it noticed that I was using AdBlocking software and could I kindly turn it off to help suppo

Answer 1

I guess there are several ways of doing it, but probably the easiest one would be to have some kind of background image, or text, that will be replaced when the ad is loaded. Thus, if the ad gets loaded, you see the ad. If the ad doesn't load, you see the text.

This example would be client side, done by either JavaScript or just plain CSS might even suffice.

There might be some server-side gimmicks that could do this too, but they would be unnecessarily elaborate and clunky. One method that springs to mind would include some kind of API with the advertiser that could be asked "did the user from IP such.and.such load any images?" and in that way get the answer. But I doubt there's such services - it would be much easier to do on the client side.