I never said it was a good idea it just seems fair to be able to choose not &quot;waste&quot; bandwidth. Although the argument that hosting is becoming so cheap it doesn&#x27;t matters could be made.<p>The biggest issue with being able to detect ad blockers is that you could do something nefarious, so I understand why the blockers don&#x27;t want to be detected. I could just imagine my someone going to an innocent site with an adblocker enable and getting goatse&#x27;d for example.