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Re: How aren't Bitcointalk ads blocked by ad blockers like ABP ?
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DarkStar_
on 19/09/2016, 22:36:46 UTC
The code of the ad is disguised to look like a post. Ad blockers aren't yet smart enough to tell the difference between a post and an ad on bitcointalk, so the ad blocker can't block the ads without blocking posts too.
Wrong. Posts look like this, with a



Ads look like this, which uses a
of random stuff[1], which is probably how it gets bypassed. If it keeps changing, a program will have a hard time reconizing it.


[1] Page refresh shows something else: http://i.imgur.com/L9jdF00.png