amorgan

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by amorgan 8y ago
Adblock Analytics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662793
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by amorgan 10y ago
The CueCat actually has a connection to the Oak Island Money Pit ( http://www.oakislandmoneypit.com/ ). The inventor of the CueCat, J. Hutton Pulitzer (formerly J. Jovan Philyaw) is prominently featured on the tv show The Cur
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by amorgan 11y ago
I'm seeing 11 trackers (6 advertising, 1 essential, 2 analytics & 2 social media) per Ghostery, but didn't receive any popups. The "how much have you read?" indicator is pretty neat.
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Ad Blocking: The Digital Double-Edged Sword(hpematter.com)
2 points by amorgan 11y ago|3 comments
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by amorgan 11y ago
You're right - it's about sites that display advertising gaining a better understanding of how their revenue is affected by ad blockers. Once they know that they can have an informed discussion on what, if any, changes are needed.
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by amorgan 11y ago
The purpose of our method is to detect the usage of ad blockers for informational purposes. For example, if you have a site that displays ads you'd probably like to know how many of your visitors are blocking them.
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by amorgan 11y ago
I couldn't agree more and it'll probably remain that way for awhile longer. 3rd party scripts can be included via a CNAME record at the root domain level.
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by amorgan 11y ago
You could add a rule to allow ads.js for each site's domain that's using the method as we've described, but a site could easily dynamically cycle through the thousands of file name combinations contained within EasyList.
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by amorgan 11y ago
I'm the creator of Detect Adblock and will be around if anyone has any feedback or wants to discuss anything related to ad blocking.
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Show HN: Detect Adblock(detectadblock.com)
6 points by amorgan 11y ago|11 comments
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by amorgan 11y ago
We have no interest in tracking anyone and can't given our implementation. If you checkout our sample report (which is the same one that clients receive) all of the data is highly aggregated: https://www.adblockanalytics.com
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by amorgan 11y ago
The JavaScript screen & window variables have been removed. https://www.adblockanalytics.com/analyze.js var abaA; if(!document.getElementById('abaA')){ abaA='N'; } else{ abaA='Y'; } var r=n
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by amorgan 11y ago
Truly appreciate your thoughtful response - thank you! I don't believe ad blockers are going away nor do I think it's time well spent or an effective strategy asking visitors to disable them or try to sneak ads past them. What I d
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by amorgan 11y ago
We're checking if the display of an ad is possible, but the only reason we're doing this is to inform the website owner of how ad blocking is affecting them. Once they have this information, a lot of good can come from it that wou
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by amorgan 11y ago
Excellent tip that we'll definitely implement asap. Nice username.
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by amorgan 11y ago
Screen resolution & viewport size aren't being used. They were added many months ago when we first started development.
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by amorgan 11y ago
That's what we're seeing so far. Nice attention to detail.
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by amorgan 11y ago
You nailed - this is the exact purpose of our service.
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by amorgan 11y ago
You are correct - no cookies or any visitor tracking is being used. We only track if the display of an ad is possible. And thanks for reminding me of the screen & window JavaScript variables. They aren't being used at all.
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by amorgan 11y ago
Totally understand that some people don't want to be tracked, but our service doesn't track anyone nor has any interest in doing so. My response is also raising a question which I'd love to hear your thoughts on.
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by amorgan 11y ago
Purely out of curiosity, why are you opposed to websites knowing how many of their visitors are blocking ads? I get that you're against being tracked, but if they can't find out how their revenue is being affected, then how can th
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by amorgan 11y ago
We spent a lot of time discussing pricing and so far it's seemed reasonable, but your feedback has been noted. Definitely true that someone with the right skills, time & resources could leverage existing APIs or build a similar ser
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by amorgan 11y ago
Received your emails - thanks!
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by amorgan 11y ago
From what I understand, PageFair is also running an advertising network to cover their costs and that's why they need to be whitelisted. Our solution doesn't display any ads or messages to the visitors of websites which use our se
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by amorgan 11y ago
That does seem to be the result so far and it'll be interesting to see if that charges as more sites use the service.
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by amorgan 11y ago
Typical LAMP stack is being used & service hasn't been advertised yet.
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by amorgan 11y ago
We don't track visitors, we're only interested if a visitor can view ads or not.
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by amorgan 11y ago
I hope that doesn't happen because Adblock Analytics is 100% cookieless and doesn't track visitors via any method, we're only interested if ads were displayed or not, but we do have some ideas if it does happen.
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by amorgan 11y ago
I'm the creator of Adblock Analytics and the reason I built it is because a lot of websites seem to be struggling with determining how many of their visitors are blocking ads. I'll be around to answer any questions that might pop
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Show HN: Adblock Analytics(adblockanalytics.com)
42 points by amorgan 11y ago|62 comments

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