Ask HN: How do adblockers work?

[anthony_james]

Why can some ads still get through them, and how can websites detect them?

[arkitaip]

It's a cat and mouse game really:

1. Overview of ad blockers and detection: http://www.detectadblock.com/

2. Ad network agnostic approach: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4869154/how-to-detect-adb...

3. anti-adblocker... killer: https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer