Background image if adblock is being used

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Background image if adblock is being used

Is it against the TOS?

thecoalman

7:36 am on Oct 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm considering adding a background image that would be a non clickable ad behind the Google ads and displyed when someone is using something like adblock. The image would be completely obscured if the Google ad is displayed.

As best I can tell it is not against the TOS but I'm wondering if I'm missing something? Any "gotchas" I'm not aware of?

jomaxx

5:58 pm on Oct 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

A simple background-type image, I don't see why it would be a problem. If it's going to consist of text content (e.g. "shame on you for using an ad blocker"), I would be careful lest it show up before the AdSense block loads, thus causing confusion. Overall, I don't see the purpose in doing this.

Lame_Wolf

8:44 pm on Oct 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

Problems I can see arising are...
1: Not all browsers are the same, so it *may* be possible for the adsense and "non clickable ad" overlapping.
2: People may try to click on it, and nothing happens. Then, when a real advert is there, they don't bother clicking. Fool me once...

thecoalman

5:08 pm on Oct 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

Well it was going to be a standard ad but the point about it not being clickable causing confusion is good one. Besides after some testing I see that it's showing up before the google ad appears so for both of those reasons this idea is no more.

I think what I'm going to do is hide a div with JS which will contain a standard HTML ad to be served to those without JS enabled.

Thanks for feedback.

Leonard0

6:32 pm on Nov 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

There's a couple of adblock detection scripts available for free downloading - just Google them.
They both successfully detected AdBlock Plus on my browser when I visited their sites but I haven't tried installing the scripts on my own sites yet.