Prevent Ad Blocking
 

Does anyone know of a hack or mod which will not show threads to certain usergroups if they have ad blocking software installed and enabled?

I would like to keep unregistered users from using my site and bypassing the ads which help pay the bills.

If someone knows of one please point me in that direction, as I searched and could not find anything.

Thanks for your help.

you won't find one either.

The ads are blocked Client Side so it is unlikely that such a modification will exist because any modifications would be server side and therefore in-effective.

Ditto. It's beyond anyone's control to know what software is being ran on a visitor's computer except the general operating system and the browser. Hence as said, there will be no modifications to prevent this that cannot be bypassed extremely easily...

Ok then riddle me this...

Go to the following site... http://www.pwinsider.com

Try clicking on any story with ad blocking turned off. The story pops up fine.

Now turn on ad blocking again and click on a story you then see the following...

So obviously it can be done. I would like to do this, but just do it for the unregistered usergroup on my site.

Someeone has to know a way.

instead of having popup ads, apply banners on your site, so they will not be blocked.

It seems Javascript based probably, I very much doubt there is a modification for this for vBulletin. Your best chance would be to try and integrate a 3rd Party script.

I dont have any popup ads on my site. I use all banner ads.

I think he's speaking of actually selling a banner space, then you host the banner with a link to your site.

after seeing that site, I'm pretty interested in how thats achieved as well, and i've looked all around today and haven't found anything yet.

Are you not afraid that this will drive guests away and never even consider registering on your site?