Welcome to the Pro Adblocker page.

You don't see a message in the upper part of the screen? Please turn off your ad blocker for a moment and reload the page ;-)

The purpose of this page is to provide information about the advantages and reasons for using an ad blocker and how you can integrate this message into your websites, which is probably why you are now visiting this page!
As already written in the message, an ad blocker is used for self-protection and, in addition to a reasonably up-to-date browser and operating system, should be part of the minimum equipment when visiting the Internet.
This is not about denying website operators advertising revenues, but about protecting and educating YOU as an internet visitor!

But first, a little history lesson:
We are in the early years of the Internet in the late 1990s.
The internet is still in its infancy, everyone is trying out their own skills. One with brightly colored, very "lively" pages with endless gif animations (I confess to having been one of them!), others try out the limits of Flash animations, which at the time were the only way to create video-like animations, also with sound, to include on your website. As the saying goes, “It was all the rage!”
But commercial websites also quickly found this medium and included it into their pages. But not to entertain the site visitor. But to display advertising. The more hectic, gimmicky and often louder, the more they believed that they could force the content to attention of the site visitor.
Very few people found this funny and long before the millennium, they (often media sites) were warned not to overdo it and stick to static advertising, or to put a stop to it and focus on less aggressive advertising.
We were all loudly laughed at and mocked.
Someone quickly came up with the idea of editing the so-called "host file" in Windows and so a group was created that kept this file up to date (you could call this a precursor to the ad blocker), where everyone contributed to it and you could protect yourself from them could protect ulcers.

At this point we don't want to forgot the Yahoo problem as an example: Google Link! (other advertising agencies had similar problems)

So we were mocked and the fight was caught in an endless loop, as it is today. The links changed, we delivered updates (host file).
Then the Netscape finally reached puberty, the Firebird was born, which then moved on to Firefox in adult life. It was revolutionary! Finally, no more countless Internet Explorer windows, but tabs!
And then the extensions became more and more famous and popular. Including the first usable ad blocker!
ADBLOCK PLUS was the universal protection tool until Firefox version 35, simply because you could display all the content linked to the page or its links! Here you could castrate any page you wanted until it was unrecognizable.
Unfortunately, Mozilla then changed the structures from version 40 onwards and what came after can only be described as unusable to this day.
I've never been particularly interested in the reasons for this, but everyone is welcome to do their own research if they're interested.
Very useful Adons (extensions) also disappeared then that blocked/deactivated images or scripts on a website with a simple click.

Various platforms have now installed a so-called “paywall” for their content or block site visitors with ad blockers. The package available here also works on the latter principle for your website(s). However, some well-configured ad blockers can also bypass such a block (or use the Google cache!)
Many have probably also noticed the fight on platforms such as YouTube (there are many videos about this), which talk about YouTube's aggressive fight for advertising revenue.
The ad blocker Ublock Origin has currently proven itself very well!
Since YouTube is known to be a Google appendage, site visitors with non-Chrome (Chromium, Edge,...) browsers, such as Firefox, are harassed, for example with page errors and artificial delays in page loading.
But you can live with that if you are spared this annoying and intrusive advertising.

And why?
It was as always: "beware of the beginnings!" ...everything could be so relaxed in life.
If they would "get off their horse" and practice reflection and only use advertising to a reasonable extent, these eternal battles would all be superfluous. Yes, probably not even necessary!
Here, however, endless income has to be generated for "the waterhead", hardly anyone wants to actively work and make a contribution that would justify an advertising display.

Similar situation on media platforms, such as of newspapers. Only the clicks count. You are lured to pages with shady and sensational headlines (clickbaiting) whose content then turns out to be less than irrelevant.
Journalistic quality takes precedence over quantity. While proofreading has been eliminated for print editions for years, no one needs to hope that this would be different with online media. And under all these circumstances, they seriously expects justification for (advertising) revenue?

So the fight continues!
I know that this will also upset some people. That there will still be greedy people who can't get enough of it. Under these circumstances: Hopefully you'll starve on our outstretched arm and more and more education will ensure that ad blockers are installed and used!
A site that tries to annoy me to death with annoying displays and pop-ups because I use an ad blocker is not worth visiting again. You can also find all the information on other sites, no one has to rely on Script Kids construction kit sites like this! Find an honest job where you get paid based on your performance, or starve!
Sure, that sounds drastic and aggressive. But that's just how it is when you've been on the Internet since the late 80s and always hope that things can't get any worse or more mindless.

If you would like to incorporate such an overlay into your page(s), you can download the ZIP archive with all files and simple instructions here (3,74kByte).
(Unfortunately, instructions are often missing these days, which is why I don't publish anything on well-known platforms like Github!)

The ZIP archive contains the following files:

If you have any questions, please contact me at a68k (aaat) gmx (dooot) de

The original was written for Wordpress by Stefan Bohacek and adapted by the user Beko and finalized by me to make installation easier and made available for download.

Of course, you can continue to use this archive and the website for your own FREE publication, please include a backlink.

We are also happy to receive feedback!