I suppose the positive that comes out of this...is it's made me re-evaluate how to display ads...
Requires a built in ad banner system...
Although I wonder the usefulness behind preventing ad blocking...as those who refuse to even have ads displayed are likely NOT going to buy anything or click on links anyways...
But buying decisions are impulsive...you don't even know half the time when you've been subjected to advertising...it attacks your sub-conscience...thats what branding is all about...
So I guess as long as you seen a message period...it's likely going to affect your buying habits anyways...
And if you try and fight it...the more likely their message will stay in your head...so really it's a win-win for the business
Interesting...
Anyone have any ideas on how they can prevent ad blockers from doing their thing?
I suspect they work on the following ideas:
1) Advertisments will be Flash/Images
2) link to external sources
3) open new windows
Intelligent ad blockers will likley learn where a window is redirected in the case of a click...so you you redirected to some random location on your own server each time, that should do the trick
Some blockers I imagine, let you customize the HTML of visted pages...so you simply click the Flash/Images you never want displayed again and voila!!! No more advertisments...
The way to solve this would be to randomize Flash/Images inside tables of data, so no fixed row can be removed...First time displayed inside first column, next is thrid from the bottom and so on...
As for fixed ad banners...like towers which reside in a fixed location...
I guess...you SOL...
I wonder if you could test for a cookie being set and if the cookie or SID was not allowed (creating a session) the you could reject the user from seeing anything...
This way you could track the users actions...checking if Flash clips had indeed been displayed and if not...again chock that SID and display nothing...
Could the user write a custom popup blocker that just requested new SID's each page refresh...to get around blocking based on SID's
I would imagine so...in which case...again I'm SOL as requiring a SID to be used X number of times doesn't make sense...
I suppose randomization of ad locations is the only viable solution...and some sort of cloaking of the advertisments...no external URL's don't open directly in new window, don't redirect to a fixed URL internally....
Having covered those grounds...I think it's safe to assume that would prevent most popup blocker software...unless a popup blocker program was really smart and tested for the above and reacted accordingly...
The trick is to figure out what identifies as an advertisment and remove those identities so an adbanner looks just like a an normal image...same goes for links, etc...
A popup blocker would have to assume all links were ads and all images were ads, in which case...yielding a fairly useless HTML page in the end
Anyone have any other ideas? To combat popup blocking that is
Cheers
