Launch the notification bar if a user is using Adblock Pro

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I've seen the code before somewhere else but I can't find it. I would like to find a way of notifying users via the Notification bar to add an exception for a website.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/20505898/1357033 - Good answer. – Mansoorkhan Cherupuzha Aug 20 '15 at 10:11 — Mansoorkhan Cherupuzha, Aug 20 '15 at 10:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:33

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I don't have the code off-hand but the basic strategy to do this is to attempt to execute code that ad-block pro normally blocks and then check if it ran successfully or not. If not, you can display a notification to the user.

answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:33

Jeremy Battle

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:36

You could try this...

var image = new Image();

image.onerror = function() {
   alert('C\'mon, the ads pay for this site :(');
}

image.src = 'http://example.com/known-url-adblock-blocks';

..or...

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:47

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I don't know about launching a notification bar, but I think the method that this site uses would work... basically, they add a background image behind the ad that shows through when the ad is blocked:

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answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:47

Mottie

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 05:39

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An alternate way of doing this really simply is checking your ad containers height. You can then detect in almost one line of jQuery!

function checkAds()
{
  if($(".ad-container").height()=="0")
  {
    // Show notification here!
  }
}

answered Aug 25 '13 at 05:39

jduncanator

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 21:32

My easiest solution with jquery is:

    $.ajax({
        url: "/Scripts/custom/advertisement.js", // this is just an empty js file
        dataType: "script",
        success: function () {
          // user doesn't use adblock
        }
    })
    .fail(function () {
       // user uses adblock
    });

advertisement.js just contains nothing.

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You could throw a javascript alert up based on any of the methods found on Stackoverflow already:

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Mar 01 '11 at 15:37

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Launch the notification bar if a user is using Adblock Pro

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