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Originally Posted by Icy
And how are you going to push sponsors without ads?
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Adblock does not affect 95% of the traditional ways to push sponsors - FHGs, TGP/MGP galleries, review sites etc. Even at tubes in most of the cases it doesn't affect links back to paysites (if they provide such links) - it mainly affects ads from major networks, which seems to be what Adblock is mostly about, blocking major networks that are used to sniff on surfers' surfing habits and to bombard them with the gazillion of mostly irrelevant ads.
If you're using custom ads to push sponsors, serve them from your own server, do not call them "ads" or "banners" and use custom banner sizes (all of that is fairly easy), Adblock is not going to cause you any trouble. In theory you can still be added to some filtering list with your custom ads manually, but that is highly unlikely - those people who maintain such lists are very busy and overworked, they're not going to bother unless you're very popular and your ads are obscenely intrusive.
In yet more theory, people can use Element Hider Helper addon to hide your custom ads manually, but only a small fraction of Adblock users are using EHH, and even they are not going to bother if your ads are reasonable and non-intrusive. Why would people spend their time hiding ads that are static, non-intrusive, and on top of it are actually a relevant advertising? It is not typical - although there are some crusaders who go out of their way to hide all ads to the last one, statistically their impact on revenues is negligible.