Why haven’t website designers made ads undetectable by an Adblock?
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Whenever a website designer makes an ad that bypasses Adblock, a user who starts seeing the ad can then add a custom filter to block that specific ad. That user can then report this new ad to the Adblock community and it can be added to the filter list.
The ad can never be undetectable because the purpose of the ad is to get the end user’s attention. In getting your attention, it can be detected.
Simple answer: they try, and the Adblock developers adapt. That’s why the adblocking software needs regular updates. Those developers and the ad creators are in a kind of “arms race”, constantly trying to beat each other.
Websites have to point the ads where to go, if they didn’t the ads wouldn’t know where to go. Just like the advertisers can see where the ads go, so can ad blockers.
They *do* try to make ads undetectable.
Then the ad blockers figure out a solution.
Then the ad companies try something new to made ads undetectable.
Then the ad blockers figure out a solution.
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