Make it infinitely more obnoxious, 90's era blinky text, gifs, auto play music... "You wouldn't be seeing or hearing any of this bullshit if you ran an ad blocker"

https://media.tenor.com/bD9vHNiR1rQAAAAd/boom-mind-blown.gif

That or they're downvoting low effort comments

Or someone who doesn't like generic comments. You could paste half those on any comment chain. They're the equivalent of an upvote but the commenters felt the need to say it instead. Good downvotes.

I'm not sure how, but you can find their username on lemmy 💀

Jerboa user?

I would downvote that crap too. Contributes nothing to the discussion, waste of time and screen space. That's the comment equivalent of banner ads

And now you got the likes of google and YouTube that prevent things from working if you do run an ad blocker

I could be wrong but I don't think there even is a way to fully prevent adblocking without something like the proposed web integrity API, since it's all clientside and the browser can easily just choose not to render any ads.

Overall I do agree that less people using adblocks means less attention from corps and less adblock-blocks like youtube's, but I'm conflicted on whether that's a good enough reason to have most people suffer through so many ads.

If ads were just ads, then sure. But now that they serve as trackers too, and are oftentimes hijacked by malware... yeah no, screw all ads.

i don’t really know what im talking about, but wouldn’t it be a bit easier in this case since the goal isn’t to evade the ad blocker? rather than try to detect the ad blocker, wouldn’t it be possible to design the pop up so that it’s easily detected by ad blockers (or annoyance blockers)?

It's not a losing battle.

It's like a lock on your front door: Anyone that really wants to bypass it will easily. It's there to stop most people.

On Reddit/Lemmy we're exposed to mostly people that know how to, but outside a lot of people will think Adblockers are the discovery of the century when their brother in law installs it, until they need to update it and it won't work ever again because they can't click an update button.

yeah the adblock detection doesn't work for me

at least not in Mull with uBlock Origin on Android with AdAway (root)

i generally go into noscript, poke in the console, or look for a bypass extension, just to spite them.

like sites that disable right click, i scrape them on principle...

It's ok.

Now come and check out your 1 out of 3 free blogpost of the month!

I mean, yes? But also this is like that stupid iPhone setting that diverts your charging to off-peak hours or something. It's such an incredibly small difference.

Think about it like this: even when you link other posts in lemmy, you link them in their home instance, because there is no way to link posts so that everyone gets one to their own instance as you can do with communities in the threadiverse. Neither can you repost it in any meaningful way, since that just means copying the content, which would make it appear as though you said it yourself.

Put it in an element with a class like "ad-banner", it should be enough for most ad blockers to block it.

You can try to load an image from a subdomain like ads., or from a filename like 468x80.png (see EasyList) to catch all the common ad blockers, maybe with an id of Ad-Container to catch css-based ad blockers.

DNS based blockers that use regular expressions or wildcards will work with the subdomain approach, but most of them still rely on hardcoded list of domains which means you either need to get a throwaway (sub)domain on their lists OR serve data from an actual ad server (or just live with the occasional false positives from people who believe DNS blocking is enough [which it really isn't if we're being honest])

But honestly, in this case doing it with JS should be fine since disabling JS is a quite effective ad blocker anyway. Here's how I do it for example: https://ads.d.on-t.work/ad.min.js (and you can try it out at https://w.on-t.work)