Rare for me to agree with Mike K on anything, but in this case I do. Ad blockers are convenient, but by running them you are essentially screwing over the websites that you want to visit. No wonder the news media has gone downhill so badly if everyone wants free high quality news but no one wants to pay and no one wants to see ads.
I stopped using ad blockers a few years ago for that reason. If I encounter a site with very obnoxious ads I just leave and never come back.
How about this for an approach to ad blockers? Detect them, and if it is a logged in user who has been using the site for a while, display a small message something like "Looks like you're using an adblocker. VV depends on advertising revenue to maintain this forum and we'd really appreciate if you whitelisted us. We hate obnoxious ads as much as you do, and we are careful not to run them on our site."
Edited by pherthyl, 28 November 2014 - 08:30 AM.