AntiAdBlock.Core

Stop losing forum ad revenue to ad blockers

Forums and communities typically see 25-40% of page views with an ad blocker, from members who know their way around blockers. AntiAdBlock Core asks them, in your community's voice, to allow ads on your forum, and its dashboard shows you when a filter list starts naming your domain. No free script to babysit.

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  • Free up to 5,000 detections a month
  • phpBB, XenForo, Discourse, vBulletin, Invision
  • A notice in your community's voice
  • Blocklist Watch in your dashboard
Forums & communities

For communities that know their way around blockers.

  • 25-40%typical ad-block rate on forums and communities
  • Dailyfilter-list check for your domains (Pro and up)
  • 1 clickto send a case to our team (Max and Business)
  • 0%revenue share: a flat price by detections

Typical range from our ad-blocking statistics. Your own rate shows in your dashboard from the first day.

What ad blocking costs a forum

Up to two in five page views earn nothing

With 25-40% of members blocking, a large share of your traffic brings in no ad revenue while it still costs hosting and moderation.

Workarounds travel fast in your own threads

Forum members test tools, share fixes and report sites to filter-list maintainers. Whatever you install, they will look at it.

Free add-ons get abandoned

Many anti-adblock add-ons for forum software end up unmaintained or deleted, frozen at a version that stops counting the blockers your members use.

When a filter list names your forum, you know

Forum members are the readers most likely to report a site to a filter list or share a fix in a thread. Blocklist Watch, from the Pro plan, reads the public filter lists and the trackers where their maintainers work every day, and shows you in plain language, in your dashboard, when one of them names your domains.

On Max and Business you send the case to our team with one click and it takes it from there. Your members, meanwhile, see a notice that asks them to support the community by allowing ads, with your own message and logo from the Max plan, not a crude popup.

AntiAdBlock Core vs free anti-adblock add-ons

Every forum platform has a free add-on or two. Here is what changes after the first month.

AspectAntiAdBlock CoreFree scripts and add-ons
UpkeepKept current for youFrozen at the version you installed
Filter-list watchBlocklist Watch shows when a list names your domainNone
The noticeYour message and logo (Max), your color (Pro)A generic popup
DataShare of page views blocked per day, by type from MaxUsually none

Works with your forum software

  • phpBB
  • XenForo
  • Discourse
  • vBulletin
  • Invision Community
  • MyBB, Flarum, Q&A and wiki platforms

Anti-adblock for forums and communities, in one tag

Add one async tag to your forum template, the same way you add any analytics or ad tag. AntiAdBlock Core detects uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite, AdBlock Plus, AdGuard, Brave Shields and Ghostery on desktop and mobile, reports network-level blocking such as Pi-hole or NextDNS apart, and is kept current for you as blockers change.

Members with a blocker see your notice and the script checks again as soon as they allow ads on your forum. Members blocked only at network level can be allowed to close it. Your dashboard shows the share of page views with a blocker, and from the Max plan its breakdown by type of blocking, device, browser and country.

Adblock detection for publishersAdblock detector

Related use cases

Other types of site, each with its own ad-block problem and its own fix.

Anti-adblock for news sitesAnti-adblock for affiliate sitesAnti-adblock script for BloggerAnti-adblock for ad networks and agencies

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Anti-adblock for forums: questions

How many forum members use ad blockers?

On forums and communities the typical range is 25-40% of page views, well above the 15-25% typical of news sites, because the audience is technical. Your own figure shows in the dashboard from the first day on the free plan.

Is there an anti-adblock add-on for phpBB, XenForo or Discourse?

Several free ones exist, but many end up abandoned. AntiAdBlock Core is not a platform add-on: you add one tag to your forum template, so it works on phpBB, XenForo, Discourse, vBulletin, Invision Community and other software where you can add a script.

My free anti-adblock script stopped working. Why?

Free scripts stay frozen at the version you installed while blockers and their filter lists change all the time, so they gradually stop counting the blockers your members use. AntiAdBlock Core is kept current for you, with nothing to update on your side.

Will my members just find a way around it?

Some will try, which is why the service is kept current and Blocklist Watch shows you in the dashboard when a public filter list names your domain. On Max and Business you can send the case to our team with one click and it takes it from there.

Will a notice drive my community away?

The notice asks for one thing, allowing ads on your forum, framed as support for the community, with your own message from the Max plan. Members without a blocker never see it, and members blocked only at network level can be allowed to close it.

Can someone copy the script and use it on another site?

No. Each site is verified in your account, and our terms do not allow copying the script to use on another site.

Is it free for a small community?

Yes. The free plan covers 5,000 detections a month for one site, with no payment method. A detection is a page view where a blocker is found; page views without one never count.

Recover revenue from the most ad-block-savvy users on your site

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