Question about ad blockers
 

Does anyone know a good way to get around ad blockers. I'm talking about the little programs that will block your banner ads from being displayed. The one in particular that i'm having trouble getting around is Norton Internet Security. Any advice you guys can give is appreciated.

make sure you name the banner directory something other than 'ads' 'banners' 'advertising' etc etc

Sweet, thanks for the suggestions

aight, I tried renaming my directory named 'ads' to 'revsrc' and updated my banner script, but the ads are still not showing through NIS. Any other suggestions?

You will find that Nortons actually blocks some of the sponsor sites by name. Maxcash is one that is blocked by name.

There is a url encoding program for sale called Link Cloaker 5 that will encode your links and fool Nortons.

size of the image may also be an issue. In the past, I would download blacklists off the internet and add them to my hosts file. Anything from those domains was blocked.

Global Dialers made a good point... don't call your ad directory, ads, banners, etc. but I see you tried that already. Some of them are getting "smart" and recognizing affiliate codes. They see a code, it assume it is a banner and won't display it. One way around this is pointing to a simple php w/ a redirect in it.

<?p h p
h e a d er ('Location: http://your.linkingcode.here');
?>

I do use a script now that displays a random image, also the link goes to another script i use to track clicks, and then redirect them to another site. The click tracking script is named 'adclick.asp' so maybe i need to change that to remove the word ad.

Any ideas from the overnight crowd?

DHTML exits work well for me.

Would mod_rewrite help any in the php area?