Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2017, Director: Lluís Garrido Ostermann
In the last years, there has been a surge in the usage of ad-blocking software among Internet users, mainly motivated by intrusive advertisements and rising awareness of the privacy and security implications of advertisements. As a response, many websites have started implementing ad-blocker detection scripts, which detect whether or not an user has an ad-blocking software.
In this work, we study the implications and technical underpinnings of those scripts and document relatively simple workarounds ad-blocking software could implement to avoid detection by those scripts. We also present a prototype implementing the explained techniques over a set of test cases.