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Originally Posted by Killswitch
Guess what? Adblock matched that url based on "banners" and blocked it.. They also block any keywords in javascript method names and urls too.. The authors of these programs constantly browse sites with ads on them trying to find the new "tricks" used to circumvent these attempts to get around the blockers and sends out updates with new matching algorithms on them
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To be fair, that's been a base practice by most ad blocker software over the past decade, to block standard IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) banner specifications, common keywords for banner names and folders (banners, ads, etc), not to mention a multitude of banner ad servers in various database lists. My point is, this is not at all exclusive to adblock or adblock plus.
Some of the easiest way around most of them is to store your banners locally, on the SAME domain as the content, and use folder names like pictures, media or whatever to store them, and name the banners anything other than common banner names or names with banner dimensions in the filenames. For implementation, add a pixel or two to the banner sizes. So, 302x301 for example instead of 300x300. There's a multitude of ways around it if one really wants to do it.
But I'd never ever block someone from accessing our sites who has one installed. Instead, we try to engage that user in alternate methods that may be more complementary to the experience they seek.