{"id":102,"date":"2016-08-31T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:07:49","slug":"blocking-the-ad-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Blocking the Ad-Blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The game of cat and mouse continues at full throttle. \u00a0Since the beginning, a fact of the Internet has always been advertisements. \u00a0That is what makes the Internet (mostly) free for everyone. \u00a0Large corporations pay content providers for advertising rights and in return the visitors must watch some (brief) product placement.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to a few years ago and the first “ad-blocker” came on the scene with the promise to eradicate all annoying advertisements from the viewer’s screen. \u00a0I remember even an Android app that did this for your phone\/tablet. \u00a0That was pretty sweet when it worked (Google has since removed it).<\/p>\n

As usual with things that seem too good to be true, the success was not permanent. \u00a0The larger content sites and even the smaller ones can detect ad-blocking services and will refuse to display the content until you disable your browser plugin. \u00a0See screenshot example below.<\/p>\n

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Who knows what is next to come, but I doubt it will be with the viewer’s best interests in mind. \u00a0Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The game of cat and mouse continues at full throttle. \u00a0Since the beginning, a fact of the Internet has always been advertisements. \u00a0That is what makes the Internet (mostly) free for everyone. \u00a0Large corporations pay content providers for advertising rights and in return the visitors must watch some (brief) product placement. Fast forward to a … Continue reading “Blocking the Ad-Blocking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMx4-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}