So when you open a page, this adblocker looks at what (mostly JavaScript files) and domains are on its blacklist. This goes for Brave, Adblock, Adblock Plus and uBlock as well. If a user has an adblocker installed, you don't have to reserve the space in your layout for the ad units, so you might as well get rid of them, so in this post we're going to have a look at how we can determine if a user has installed an ad blocker like Adblock, Adblock Plus or uBlock.ĭisclaimer: Some countries have discussed if it is legal for a webmaster to determine if their users have an adblocker installed or not, because it technically is a method of figuring out what software a user has installed, which quickly becomes a privacy matter.īasically Adblockers are a huge blacklist of which files not to load or from which domains NOT to load files.
You might want to do that to display a box that encourages them to disable their ad blocker, because you're trying to make a living off of blogging or to make more conscious decisions about how you're going to layout your page. Hethey, reading time: ~4 minutes How To: Detect Ad Blockers (adblock, uBlock, etc)Īs a blogger or any other kind of publisher, you might be interested in if the user accessing your page right now is using an ad blocker or not.
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