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[Petie]

@Petie: yeh, sorry if I sounded negative myself, I tried to make it sound stern but calm.

> but the system isn't perfect and occasionally, something gets through that shouldn't.

^ that's exactly my point (nothing more needs to be said)

Also, I don't fault you for what you have coded, we're all human
but ABP in itself is rather it's own standard as just about everyone uses it.
There ARE ways I've run across for detecting users of AdBlock/ABP/ABPro which deals with JS testing if a particular variable exists.
This was mainly discussed in malicious redirects for AdBlock users, so I don't remember the links. (those guys are soooo lucky they disabled commenting or they woulda heard my wrath)

you can ask a few webmasters if you know any, or perhapse look around on google... idk

I think you misunderstood. I know that there are ways to detect AdBlock users. That's not the problem. The problem is that you seem to think that we should be detecting them and fixing the content that they break. I'll be blunt. That isn't going to happen. Like I said, you are welcome to continue browsing with ads disabled but you do so with the full knowledge that the site may be broken as a result and that we will do nothing to fix it.

As Vipershark said, you're on Linux so the chances of you being infected by anything you'll see in a browser are already minuscule even without your slew of extensions.

And as far as Google tracking you goes, you're naive if you think they can't find you anyway. So, in the end, what are you accomplishing? Let's list it.

1. You are potentially hurting the site by not allowing ad impressions. But, even if we ignore that, you're also:
   
2. Hurting your own experience to the point that the site is virtually unusable.
   
3. Not actually protecting yourself from any likely threats.
   
4. Not likely actually stopping Google from tracking you.
   

So, to sum it up, your approach is overkill and detrimental to everyone involved and we won't be fixing bugs caused by software like AdBlock.