According to the Symantec website, starting on October 1, the new line of Norton Internet security products becomes available. Based on the product descriptions, we expect more of the same.
After all, it’s not something that’s so loathsome or unheard of in other media. We all put up with advertising on television, print media, billboards, even blimps and banner-towing airplaines. So why block ads on the Internet with such vigor?
A technique to avoid the effect of adblock software is to mask the information that the software is looking for. Any URL is susceptible to blocking by adblock software, whether it is is an image url, Javascript, or a click URL. This article describes how to mask your URLs using PHP.
An interesting approach to adblocking is that of broadbandreports.com’s webmaster. If you register with the site, you can choose to browser with no ads. Now that’s an interesting concept…