Any progress on this? I don't mean to nag, and I see you've been busy with other mods.

Thanks for the reminder - I need to rebrand it anyway - so I'll work on it now.

how does it detect an adblocker ?

Via a javascript trick.

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I first answered this - but I just tried setting the permissions for the Unregistered / Not Logged In usergroup to fullblock and partial block and it works fine (blocking guests properly).

Just a re-branding update - no other changes.

What about displaying a message (that we can customize) that appears where the (blocked) ads normally appear? This would be less of a turn off to users, yet would help us get the message across that we would appreciate turning off their ad blocker.

More complex placement of the message in 'partial block' mod is a good idea, and I will work on it. Most likely, if I do implement what you ask it will only be for the built in vBulletin ad system, because I would need a way to reliably detect the places ads used to be.

Then would you have any other ideas why it's not blocking me when I test it? Try it yourself and let me know if it's blocking you. http://www.retouchpro.com/forums

Can you PM or email me log info so I can take a closer look?

I suspect it's vbseo causing the problem, since your plugin works on sections of my site where vbseo doesn't operate. I had to uninstall, but I understand you can't be expected to take all configurations into consideration.

Well, if I know it's an SEO problem that helps. I can look into it with that in mind. Thanks.

amazing mod

Tagged for now. Definately interested, but will see how things go with possible vbseo compatibility before installing, having read what Doug said earlier in the thread.

Thanks to a generous donation this mod has found it's way back toward the top of my pile :)

I plan to check out possible vbseo issues, as well as strength the blocking via a few methods I've been playing with.

And statistics? :)

Yes, and stats :p

This is really pretty interesting. I've been playing with all kinds of ideas, and found a few that seem to work well. Of course, for a skilled user it's always a losing battle, but we can make it hard enough to not be worth it for joe/jane user I think.

Okay, this has gotten very interesting. I've stumbled on something that seems to be working, I'm just getting out the kinks.

The long and short is, I piggy back on the vbulletin_global.js javascript file to re-insert the removed google ads via ajax. This only works if you are using vbulletin's built in adsense support. But, as far as I can tell it's unblockable (without shutting down all javascript and ajax for the entire forum) - even using noscript.

Now that's seriously cool. And a much more PC solution than blocking users.

Yeah, except it doesn't work *sigh*

lol

Back to the drawing board. I'm learning a lot about ad blocking software at least. :p

Looks like great thing, but i have one suggestion : Could it be made so i could translate messages? My forum is multilanguage and i'd like to show those messages in language selected by user.

I use the AWC Donation mod :up: Is it possible to get this mod to support it? :)

Thanks

VJ

Sounds like I good idea, I'll add it to the list.

Hmmmm - possibly. I'll see if I can think of an easy way to do this.

Well I do not work, I followed the installation instructions but not working, no error message, simply keep out the banners, opt for this option because I do not want to install another hack, someone can help me, thanks.

Interesting, but I think I would wait for the stats part of the mod before I enable this lol. I could just imagine the problems now lol.

Well, all the Template Modification System does for this mod is place the $blockit variable where I said lol - it's kind of overkill TBH.

So if that's not working for you there is some other issue. Can you copy and paste the edit you made so I can look at it?

Indeed. Tagged and subscribed. :)

Ditto

I would like to be able to silently see what is going on before taking any action

The latest version of Kaspersky anti virus software comes with separate banner blocker and pop up blocker options. Both are set to "on" as default. Will this be able to detect Kaspersky anti virus software too?

Many thanks..

In the past I have taken monthly banner delivery stats and monthly Google Analytics page view stats then compared them. The discrepancy betwen them gives the number of page views lost to ad blocker software.. (That is my simplistic view anyway..)

I did this a few years ago and the results weren't too alarming...

I need to try it again soon to get an updated overview of ad blocker impact on my forum..

Nice idea for a mod BTW.. Just what I was looking for..

Awesome mod idea... but I'd want to check the stats initially as well, before going all the way with the blocking. Keeping close tabs on this - I hope it gets implemented soon!

Any chance of stats making it in?

Hi, Hambil!

I've tested your mod at my debug site. There'are 2 problems:

1. It conflicts with VBSEO skin in "partial block" mode.

2. HTML is hardcoded, instead of template. Inconvenient to edit.

About (1) - you could replace all kinds of DOM operations with just "document.write('your_text')". That should work with all skins.

Why i can see this after installation ?
I've the standard template.
www.vwgolfcommunity.com

Partial blocking doesn't work at all for me.

Same thing here! Partial blocking does not work at all.

I actually support my modification and I got partial blocking to work. So check it out:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=229984

your addon dont work anymore!! please fix

Moved to graveyard per authors request - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=274938