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Poll: How do you handle content blocking?

1 points by colinprince ↗ HN
I'm interested in how people are handling blocking of ads and javascript on their sites.

How do you prepare for users doing this type of blocking?

Do you test for third party and javascript blocking?

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ktpsns
I understand a website, with all its HTML, CSS files, JS programs and media files as an offer of the author, a hint how to display it. It is completely up to the user to use a common widespread browser to follow all these rules, use a braille terminal or elinks, or use a heavily customized Firefox which doesn't even execute JavaScript. If you want to enforce a way of rendering, don't use the web. Force your user to use your specific App. And even that can be betrayed. OS level adblocking. So you better force them use locked down hardware and software which cannot be altered...
rolph
if you want to serve up ads to people, then serve up ads, and stop trying to serve content. Recognize that ads, are not content, they are an attack vector.

The purpose of publishing content is to communicate with others, rather than obfusicating, or obscuring content and using bait and switch techniques, to take a browser through a rabbit hole.

cryptography
Fifth choice: I don't serve block-able content