Ad Blocker Confusion

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I do not have an ad-blocker, but recently your site is ALWAYS showing the following message:

“Please disable your ad-blocker – our (polite!) ads help keep AskWoody going!”

At the same time, ads for Amazon, Lowes, London Fog, Powell’s Bookstore, etc., are clearly visible on the right, which would not be showing if I had an ad-blocker.

I am on Windows 7 SP1 Group A, fully updated, and I have tried it with both IE11 and Firefox (latest update) on two different laptops (HP Probook 4540s, which had an ad-blocker on Firefox with your site white-listed, and no ad-blocker on IE11, and Dell Inspiron N5110, with no ad-blocker on either IE11 or Firefox), but the problem occurs on both, as well as on my old iPhone 4s, all of which worked on the site a month or so ago.

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The “disable ad blocker” mentions you see on the site are part of the site’s theme. They appear whether you have an ad blocker installed or not.

AskWoody is reliant on meagre ad income and our wonderful donors to keep running, even though it’s staffed by our hard-working volunteers. These ad blocker mentions are just our way of “tin-rattling”, to try to keep the lights on.

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Ironically, considering the subject of this thread, when I landed on this page and scrolled down the right side, just above the section Recent Blog Posts I saw two Amazon ads promoting something named simply “Ad Blocker” and another product named “AdClear ad blocker for Android”. How about that.   🙂

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I think ads should have no client side scripting, many ads work just find without it.

Changing the code for the iframe can reduce the damage a mal-ad can do.

security=”restricted”
renders the iframe in the restricted site zone in IE.
The current standard is in other browsers “sandbox”, but both work in IE.

See:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_iframe_sandbox.asp
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534622(v=vs.85).aspx

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