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If you're interested in how many visitors are using an adblocker you can use Admiral's [1] free analytics on your site.

[1] https://getadmiral.com

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Admiral)

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Weren't you the toxic sludges trying to DMCA your way out of EasyList and co?

How do you sleep at night?

Boy, is your company's product nicely done but annoying! :)

Any plans to make the "continue without disabling" button harder to click in the future?

The design and functionality of the Engage modal is actually up to the publisher.

One of the local news stations uses them on their website. They have a tiny "continue without supporting us" link that blends in nicely with the text around it. The weird thing is I always see that link while my wife never does. I don't mean she can't find it; it simply isn't there. This is using Chrome on Android. No root or anything special. Doesn't matter if her phone is on wifi or mobile. On the other hand, I see that link every time. It's been that way for about a year and I have never been able to figure it out -- although admittedly, I haven't tried that hard.

The publisher can choose to remove the option to bypass the modal after a certain number of visits or after a certain period of time.

Good to know. Thanks.

Getadmiral.com didn’t even get past DNS blacklists, so not sure what exactly you’re reporting: Blocked by 1Hosts (Lite), ABPVN List, Anudeep's Blacklist, Energized Blu, hostsVN, Lightswitch05 - Ads & Tracking and oisd.

I’m not seeing where the free analytics is on the homepage (at least on mobile).

But I’m curious - do you have any off the cuff stats on what is typical as far as % of users with Adblock across various types of audiences?

Tech-related sites can have 40%+ desktop adblocking. Mobile blocking is usually <10% no matter the vertical. The less tech-heavy the site is, the less adblocking but it's usually at least 10% on desktop.

Also, on the pricing page there's a "Get Free Analytics" button that you should be able to click. If you have any issues you can let me know: james at getadmiral.

Products like Admiral are why the Internet sucks. Everybody treating the Internet like their own little capitalist fiefdom consuming everything you do so you can be repackaged and resold a million million times.

I'm old enough to remember an internet that respected the sacred open ungated plain of knowledge. Publishers lost the privilege to monetize when they insisted on tracking, whether the visitor paid or not.

Admiral's paywall is so glitchy on mobile, when I don't have an ad blocker installed but it frequently thinks I do, that I've learned recoil in disgust from any brand that uses your service.

That's unfortunate! Usually when this happens the user has a network filter, enterprise firewall, or something else on the network that's blocking some traffic. Publisher's have an opportunity through our platform to offer subscriptions as an alternative to whitelisting so you can view the site without ads. They can also issue you a free subscription.

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