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I believe they're self-hosting the ads, so if you can see the page at all, you'll see the ads.

Usually browser based adblockers such as Ublock Origin apply extra logic on top of domains to determine if it's an ad or not and if it should be blocked, and they're usually quite successful.

Yeah none of these are ad networks, they are literally gifs uploaded to the site's wp-content folder like a normal blog post.

They could be routinely proxying and renaming the routes for their self-hosted ad network script to fly under the radar.

Sort of what you would do to get your analytics script past UBlock.

Like, use Cloudflare worker or something to proxy your analytics script and it won't get blocked.

Just a thought, far from sure.

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