Re: How to detect ADP (Ad Block Plus) and ad blocking apps?

[Amy Quispe (AdMob SDK Team)]

Hi Julius,

As far as I know, there's really no way to detect AdBlock on devices.

Amy Quispe

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:10:37 AM UTC-7, Julius wrote:

My Question:

How can I detect that my app's banner adverts are blocked by another app?

I don't think the AdListener interface's methods are sufficient to distinguish normal network errors from those blocking apps.

Background:

ADP has been banned from Google Play, but the app is available and in popular demand:

Just check their website: "200 millions"

https://adblockplus.org/en/chrome

ADP is making money from blocking apps, when you pay them, they don't block your ads.

Yes, they are brutally honest about that:

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements

In my eyes ADP is just another parasite like those "marketing experts" who offer fake ratings for money.

[Andrea Lisi]

"(..) no way to detect AdBlock on devices" is absolutely false.
Let's just say that the topic is out of your interest.

@Julius: you have probably make some extra custom implementations: for example you could check that the device wasn't able to display any adv over a range time, check the hosts file, etc.

Good luck,
L.

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[William Ferguson]

@Julius, yes you can detect AdBlock.

I have done so in the past (along with a dozen or so other ad blockers). I came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth worrying about them. So very little of my traffic (less than 1%) was affected and the I was going to have to maintain code for that small population.

It gets down to a business decision about whether the extra code to thwart those using ad blockers is worth the extra revenue you might gain. In the end I decided I got better value out of improving my app.

William

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