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Web and SaaS

ad blocker detection

SHOW HN2017

21points
25comments
#1,202of 2,242 in 2017
Top 54%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.

Performance: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Clever idea, fun concept

    From 1 comment
    • I love it. Great idea! If people don't want to see ads on my website they souldn't consume my bandwidth.
      ffggvv on HN

Objections

  • Makes page loads much slower, hurting bounce rate and revenue

    From 2 comments
    • This has been done and thought of before. I'll go over why you don't see anyone using it. :) Now obviously the "2 seconds" would need to be tweaked to be slower. Throttling my…
      Nadya on HN
    • Interesting concept, but I don't expect it to be used commercially anytime soon, because of how slow it makes the page load. Then again, maybe your site being annoyingly slow for…
      Nyubis on HN
  • Users see sites as hostile; people will bypass by archiving content

    From 2 comments
    • Interesting concept, but do we really need to make web sites even slower to load? --- START OF RANT If you block ad-blockers (like forbes.com just did to me), I will only share…
      pawadu on HN
    • Sites will just start blocking Archive.is next.
      gogopuppygogo on HN
  • Ad-heavy sites deserve to be blocked for malware and clutter

    From 2 comments
    • Is it entitlement to not want malware? Or are we really so quick to forget:…
      Nadya on HN
    • The stupid thing is that the content of most websites is mostly ads, at least from my perspective as a user. (I don't care about the nuances of who is serving the ads) On top of…
      Declanomous on HN

Alternatives named

  • Archive.is for reading blocked articles

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting concept, but do we really need to make web sites even slower to load? --- START OF RANT If you block ad-blockers (like forbes.com just did to me), I will only share…
      pawadu on HN

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