tag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:/discussions/suggestions/379-feature-request-stealth-modeAdBlock: Discussion 2014-07-22T18:48:05Ztag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/326930472014-04-25T16:37:35Z2014-04-25T16:37:35ZFeature request: stealth mode<div><p>Which websites do you see blocking AdBlock?</p></div>Kierantag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/326930472014-07-17T13:13:27Z2014-07-17T13:13:27ZFeature request: stealth mode<div><p>It isn't really possible to run in a "stealth mode": The sites
you're talking about probably detect situations usually caused by
ad-blocking, like hidden HTML elements, or scripts or images that
failed to load, and then conclude that the user was using an
ad-blocker; all that can be done is to see, on a case-by-case
basis, just <em>what</em> the sites are detecting, and then modify
filters or add whitelists to fool the anti-adblock detection.</p>
<p>The goal is to unblock as little as possible to allow the site
to still be usable; some particularly naïve implementations
actually check for a file that, when loaded, does nothing anyway,
so unblocking it doesn't let any ads go through (I think Twitch
does that).</p>
<p>By the way, this is actually the sort of thing that the
maintainers of EasyList, the most important subscription, do on a
regular basis when they get problem reports, and that (along with
general issues involving sites breaking when general filters are
used) is why EasyList has so many whitelist rules.</p></div>James Edward Lewis IItag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/326930472014-07-22T18:48:05Z2014-07-22T18:48:05ZFeature request: stealth mode<div><p>Thanks James for explanation!</p>
<p>Tomáš</p></div>Tomáš