I've been hearing and reading a bit about how online advertising is in trouble because of Ad Block, and I've had a few people ask me if there was a way around it. So I set out to find out how to subvert adblock.
It actually wasn't that hard, and this technique would make ad block (in it's current form) obsolete. Even the “sharing of blocked ads” wouldn't stop this from working. There are no browser plugins required for it to work either.
I am not sure if I want to put out how to do it, because I use ad block ;). I don't think anyone is doing this because I haven't seen any ads behave this way. Anyway here is a demo of it in action:
I'll tell you how it works for 5 million dollars :-D
Update: I've had some people tell me they didn't believe me that this works. Hey, yeah thanks for calling me a liar. At the risk of losing out on my 5 million dollar bounty, here is a demo. (Now we'll probably see a bunch of copy cat scripts – talking about how they figured it out, super.)
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