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I'm the creator of Adblock Analytics and the reason I built it is because a lot of websites seem to be struggling with determining how many of their visitors are blocking ads. I'll be around to answer any questions that might pop up and would love to receive feedback - good, bad or otherwise. Thank you!!

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Many site stakeholders don't realize that they have choices. They can: 1) Choose to show only non-offensive ads. 2) Prompt users to whitelist their site.

You are in a good position to inform them of this. Please do.

There are good reasons people have to block ads.

You nailed - this is the exact purpose of our service.

Thanks for posting! Would you like to talk a bit about the tech stack, biggest challenge in building frontend/backend, any marketing so far, any traction?

Typical LAMP stack is being used & service hasn't been advertised yet.

Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664178 it seems that you are running the tracker on your main domain.

For a site like this I would put the tracker that's being hit by sites on a different (sub-)domain, to prevent massive traffic spikes on client sites from also taking down your own homepage.

Excellent tip that we'll definitely implement asap. Nice username.

Interesting and I like how accessible it is. Any thoughts on why more tablets than phones currently block ads? Found that kind of surprising.

That does seem to be the result so far and it'll be interesting to see if that charges as more sites use the service.

a lot of websites seem to be struggling with determining how many of their visitors are blocking ads

So they can now track people using your website? As first comment said, good luck not getting blacklisted...

We don't track visitors, we're only interested if a visitor can view ads or not.

Your tool is actively trying to determine what I user does with the page after it's served -- that's tracking. Yes, this behavior is commonplace in the industry but it doesn't mean you wont end up on blocklists because of it.

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