BlockBust

BlockBust

Fight back against ad blockers

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Vivek Sancheti
Its exactly not clear, what exactly it is? Can you explain how it works?
Marcus McCurdy
@evivz I'm one of the authors and I'll add some explanation. The tool will scan your web page and check to see if any elements or scripts you load may be blocked by an ad blocker. These elements and scripts could be ads you are loading to help pay for site hosting costs, but it also could be non-ads that just have class or element names that ended up on a blacklist. You can read more about specifics of the backend here https://medium.com/@BlockBust. I encourage you to test it out by scanning your own website.
Marcel Reschke
@marcusmccurdy nice product, but when I click the send button the from is greyed out and the cursor switches to the european no-sign. I don't know if the report is sended or if there is a problem. Anyway, it's a somewhat less than perfect ux. Personally I think it is wise to accept that some users opt-out for ads. I advice my clients to use the blocked space to kindly remind the user that it is costly to produce quality content. they can suggest other ways of compensation, too.
Marcus McCurdy
@marcelreschke Thanks for the feedback! Thanks for info about the UX issue on the send button. We just pushed out an update yesterday and we converted everything from straight CSS and vanilla JS with jQuery to SASS and knockout.js. The bug was probably introduced then, but thank you for letting us know about it. Using the blocked element for a message would be a great idea, but most ad blockers will simple remove the blocked element from the DOM entirely so unfortunately that message will never be seen.