Publishers can tell if someone is using an ad blocker, and some are starting to put up notices on the site asking people - with varying levels of politeness - to turn them off.
danydanielrt.com
Lonely Planet
Expressen.se (What makes me Grumpy? It's that you use AdBlock - stop that!)
Forbes
The Guardian (very polite, very 'Guardian', at the bottom of the page)
Wired - Banner at the top ('Do us a solid? Me neither)
& also Channel 4 - which disables video playing for people with ad blockers
Washington Post - active from 10th September 2015
The Atlantic
Axel Springer's Bild.de - asks people to turn off ad blocker, or pay to access the site
The Mirror and The Telegraph test a similar policy
The NYT is starting to test blocking the blockers
I think we may see more people adopting Channel 4's approach - but then if people can get what you have elsewhere people will just choose to visit a different site.
Seen any other good examples? Let me know in the comments, or on Twitter - I'm @dancall
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