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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Okay, so I've been thinking of doing something like this for my neocities site (whenever I have the time and drive to work on it). The biggest problem to all of this is the fact I don't wanna use any JavaScript and don't know if it's even possible without JS.

I've already, in the past, been experimenting on another neocities page I have access to the idea of blocking access to everyone using a chromium based or safari browser with and without JS, too. To say the least, it's difficult for a noob like me and so far has not worked like planned. Especially since there are so many forks of chromium with different names/user-agents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Put it in an element with a class like "ad-banner", it should be enough for most ad blockers to block it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd have to look up how to do it, but I'll definitely have to try this to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

just a Your ad block ad goes here

view source because Lemmy understands html.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can try to load an image from a subdomain like ads., or from a filename like 468x80.png (see EasyList) to catch all the common ad blockers, maybe with an id of Ad-Container to catch css-based ad blockers.

DNS based blockers that use regular expressions or wildcards will work with the subdomain approach, but most of them still rely on hardcoded list of domains which means you either need to get a throwaway (sub)domain on their lists OR serve data from an actual ad server (or just live with the occasional false positives from people who believe DNS blocking is enough [which it really isn't if we're being honest])

But honestly, in this case doing it with JS should be fine since disabling JS is a quite effective ad blocker anyway. Here's how I do it for example: https://ads.d.on-t.work/ad.min.js (and you can try it out at https://w.on-t.work)

[–] brian 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I'd imagine it's trivial to do without js. Just try to load an image or similar with a name that'd be blocked into the background image for a div that covers the entire page. Should silently fail to load with a blocker, or shows your error image if they don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

As a total HTML/CSS noob, I'll definitely have to look up how to do this. I'll probably end up trying it on the other site just in case I royally mess up my main site by accident. I at least have immediate backups for the other site right now, so I don't mind experimenting with it.