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... meanwhile Wired told me "The thing about AdBlock..." and prevent me from reading this "free" article.

Funny thing - I don't even have AdBlock.




I expect there are a number of observable events or non-events that can be used to infer the use of an ad blocker. They don't necessarily work well ...

I've been presented with a "We see you're using an ad blocker ... please turn it off" message (I can't recall where, perhaps Bloomberg or the WSJ?) when I've just had a Hosts file in play.




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