Portfever.com

[Cruisefan]

This site hosts several streaming video channels from popular cruise ports. They're using adblock detection so visitors will have to disable adblock to see the video.

http://PortMiamiWebcam.com
http://PortEvergladesWebcam.com
http://FtLauderdaleWebcam.com
http://PortCanaveralWebcam.com
http://NYHarborWebcam.com

Any ideas on how to circumvent the adblock detection script?

// did we load?
if( typeof flowplayer === "undefined" ) document.getElementById('videoplayer_1').innerHTML = "<img src='slideshow/unwelcome.jpg' width='800' height='450' border='0' alt=''>";

Note: the image is called unwelcome.jpg

[fanboy]

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[Cruisefan]

Thanks!

[PortFever.com]

Please get the message. If you want to have an ad-free surfing experience, we do not want you on our websites. Period.

Our view is very simple. If you don't like online advertising on a site... don't visit it. That includes us. The correct and honest response.

Don't block the advertising then consume the content anyway. It costs real $$$ to provide that streaming video to you.

You don't walk into your local restaurant, grocery store or gas station, consume their products and then leave without paying.
If you see a sign that says "cash-only" and you only have a credit card, you don't walk out with the goods thinking "oh yippee, I don't have to pay!".
If you go to a restaurant and get food poisoning, you don't then decide you can go to any restaurant in the future and eat for free.

We're not even asking you to pay... just to leave our sites in the form they were intended which includes advertising.

If you never click on ads then that's your choice but leave our site content alone. Respect our wishes when we deny access to our video when our ads have been removed. Do not keep trying to circumvent our code.

Just as you defend the right to deploy adblocking technology, we have the same right to see our websites delivered as intended or withhold our video if not.

If you must run an adblocker, make our sites an exception (supported feature) or don't visit them!!!

[Anomymous]

New whitelists:
@@||portmiamiwebcam.com/adserver/$script
@@||portevergladeswebcam.com/adserver/$script
@@||ftlauderdalewebcam.com/adserver/$script
@@||portcanaveralwebcam.com/adserver/$script
@@||nyharborwebcam.com/adserver/$script

[fanboy]

Please get the message. If you want to have an ad-free surfing experience, we do not want you on our websites. Period.

Thats nice

Our view is very simple. If you don't like online advertising on a site... don't visit it. That includes us. The correct and honest response.

That it is nice opinion, but the web is open for all, advertising or not.

Don't block the advertising then consume the content anyway. It costs real $$$ to provide that streaming video to you.

Hasn't cost you any more than before.. If you need to cover costs, add a donation button or subscription.

You don't walk into your local restaurant, grocery store or gas station, consume their products and then leave without paying.
If you see a sign that says "cash-only" and you only have a credit card, you don't walk out with the goods thinking "oh yippee, I don't have to pay!".
If you go to a restaurant and get food poisoning, you don't then decide you can go to any restaurant in the future and eat for free.

We're not even asking you to pay... just to leave our sites in the form they were intended which includes advertising.

I haven't actually modified your site, its all client side.. I control what I see on my screen. Server-side (your side) its unchanged. If people choose to use a client-side extension such as Adblok then thats fine, its there choice.

If you never click on ads then that's your choice but leave our site content alone. Respect our wishes when we deny access to our video when our ads have been removed. Do not keep trying to circumvent our code.

Maybe you remove the anti-adblock code to avoid us circumventing it then.. pretty simple.

Just as you defend the right to deploy adblocking technology, we have the same right to see our websites delivered as intended or withhold our video if not.

Yup I defend my right to filter content on my side, to see what I'd like to see on my screen.

If you must run an adblocker, make our sites an exception (supported feature) or don't visit them!!!

Yup made a exception on the scripts that limit the browsing of the site.

[Portfever.com]

It's fascinating and sad that you can't respect the rights of publishers to deliver content in the form that they decide. That you can't "vote" with your mouse and choose not to visit their sites. That you believe you have some inalienable right to cherry-pick what you see no matter the cost or impact on others. Bizarre and perverted logic.

If you saw an advert on a billboard, on the side of the road or in Times Square, and defaced or damaged it with graffiti or a sledgehammer... you would be arrested for criminal vandalism. You are doing the exact same thing with your online ad blocking activities.

Just because you can get away with criminal vandalism and no one (today) is policing your behavior... doesn't make it right or acceptable in a civilized, industrialized society.

You think your actions only affect you and your personal choice but they certainly affect others. For every video stream we serve (at our cost) to visitors who block our ads, we don't serve one to someone who allows ads to show and potentially engages with them... helping us pay for the service for everyone's enjoyment. Our resources are finite. Our server capabilities are finite. Streaming video to the estimated number of adblock users costs us thousands of dollars per year.

We don't condone cyber-begging (aka the "donation" button) for commercial enterprises and if we moved to a subscription model, tens of thousands of visitors on low or fixed incomes would be excluded.

The Internet is not free. There are no free rides. Everything has to be paid for somehow. Online advertising allows indirect cost sharing among the greatest number of people i.e the consumers of the products being advertised. In our case... mostly cruise fans.

We get that some online advertising is annoying and some is too invasive. We don't believe ours is either but again, if you don't like the ad presentation... don't visit our sites or anyone else's. Go read a book!

[Hubird]

We get that some online advertising is annoying and some is too invasive. We don't believe ours is either

Perhaps this may be of some interest to you

http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

Also, while I'm not interested in getting into a debate about this (and I can not be bothered reading the whole discussion) I will say that people also use ABP to prevent online tracking (it's not all about the ads).

[fanboy]

Removing the anti-adblock scripts would be a start, if he was ever going to put a request "acceptable ads" in