Opera blocking ad-blocking detection needs to stop now

[andreszs]

andreszs last edited by leocg

My wordress site includes a Google plugin to manage ads, analytics and other Google services. They have even developed a feature to detect ad-blockers and kindly request users to unblock the site, because they understand that ads help keeping sites online.

Now, this script works perfectly fine on Chrome and Firefox as shown below:

I remember this script was working correctly a few Opera (Android) versions ago, however, in Opera 78.5.4143.75924 it does not appear at all. It seems some Opera developers assumed it would be great to detect and block ad-blocking detection scripts like this, and in that, they have succeeded.

While this may seem like a great idea from an end-user's point of view, you need to understand that most websites are kept online with income from ads. Whenever I encounter this screen, I allow ads on the page because I understand that VPS hosting is not free.

Otherwise, please stop blocking our ad-blocking detection scripts, so we can ask our users to turn off their ad blockers and help us cover the VPS costs. Just a reminder, hosting isn't free, and every hosted site comes with its expenses. Blocking all ads and ad-blocker detection scripts messes with the whole system, and things can't just carry on as usual. Your help in this would keep everything running smoothly.

[OperaUser9879]

OperaUser9879 last edited by

As less than 3% of users have Opera I think you'll be fine.