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JavaScript

Posted by Rick Hoekman
Rick Hoekman
9,494 Points

AdBlocker detection snippet with jQuery and Google Analytics send event.

For those who are interested I made my first GitHub repository :)

It's an Adblocker detector with jQuery which also sends an Google Analytics event. I found some snippets online but none of them worked because they didn't wait until the page was fully loaded and AdBlock was not finished altering the DOM. Giving false negatives.

Anyway hope some of you find use in it :)

https://github.com/rhoekman/adblocker-detection

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points 
/* is the "ohDear" element where the ads would go? */
/* so the height == 0 is checking for their presence? */
if (jQuery('.ohDear').height() == 0)
/* is ga a built in function of some kind? */
ga('send', 'event', 'Ads', 'Inactive', 'AdBlocker Active');
/* are the parameters for ga preset? */

Thanks for any insights :D

1 Answer

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points
john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

I would love to see comments cause I have no idea what that means. Assuming it works that's very cool that you can do that.

Rick Hoekman
Rick Hoekman
9,494 Points

Hi John,

I've updated the README.md on GitHub with motivation and additional notes.

-Rick