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It doesn't look too good when their own web site can't make it past ad blocking/privacy extensions...

http://imgur.com/sTOIJTb

Although in my case, it wasn't AdBlock that was doing this, but rather another extension - Ghostery.

I'm curious what their specific methods are to circumvent ad-blocking. More specifically, I'd be interested in an extension that could keep a blacklist of companies that make use of this kind of service and inform the user that the company is trying to circumvent their choice not to be bombarded with advertisement.
I find this (from their site) extremely confusing:

http://s12.postimg.org/bth48avyl/Untitled.png

What on earth are those bars meant to represent? They're certainly not even close to being the percentages displayed below.

Relative to each other they make sense. I guess they chop off the right-hand side of the bar at around 20% for effect, so it looks like a larger portion of users are blocking than in reality. Makes marketing sense given the solution they're selling.
Thankfully, I have Ghostery installed. However, as a result, their site looks like total shit. Well done on designing your site without JavaScript.