Reverse engineering how publishers are defeating adblock

This is like TV and music piracy all over again, and yet again content publishers have a completely wrong impression and are doubling-down on it. Accusing your audience is the stupidest imaginable idea.

Content publishers: it is the POOR QUALITY OF YOUR EXPERIENCE that is driving people to take these steps (primarily). 9999 out of every 10000 visitors aren’t trying to “steal” your stupid article. Rather, your visitors are just sick and tired of the auto-playing pop-up videos that consume unreasonable data, delayed and difficult-to-close windows, or any number of other utterly obnoxious advertising schemes that were somehow green-lighted for your sites. A reasonable ad-blocker is not really for ads but to act as an “obnoxious content blocker” and it is a REQUIREMENT for sane web browsing in 2016.

Same thing with TV: maybe some people insist on free stuff but most of us are just sick and tired of having to deal with your streaming services (0. every network has a different app; 1. log in, password; 2. find that sometimes the show you want is unavailable because of Error -306 or something ridiculous; 3. inexplicably inconsistent streaming quality; 4. STUPID introductory sequences that cannot be skipped; 5. buggy; 6. clumsy menus, 7. perhaps still ads, despite paying for it, etc.), compared to the torrent experience (1. play ultra-high-quality content; 2. no step 2).

If I can’t visit your site, your site ceases to matter to me and you slowly lose mind share. The Internet is a big place; don’t be stupid enough to alienate your audience.

There's a much simpler workaround: if a site won't let me view their content unless I turn off my ad-blocker, I go and visit another site instead.