I won't be turning off my ad blocker, but why can't ad blockers disguise themselves?
Surely there's a way to trick their site into believing I have a normal adblock-free browser. Even a per-site whitelist kind of thing, whereby popular sites with adblock detection can be dealt with via addon scripts - say for uBlock.
JavaScript is Turing-complete. Ad blockers work by ensuring that some parts of the site are selectively not loaded or not executed. Ad blocker detectors can check whether some code was executed. Halting problem prevents ad blockers from being able to counter all such checks in the general case. So it's not even worth starting that arms race.
I think - if i didn't misunderstood it - the uBlock Origin author came up with something like a resource library for exactly that reason. Sadly I can't find a explainatory page on it right now; a possible resource file is located at:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/ublock/...
You'd still have to execute the JS - how do you expect an adblocker to emulate an abusive tracker like http://cdn4.forter.com/script.js?sn=3326ea178bfb (bonus: check out the way it abuses fake sourcemaps to try and hide from devtools, and additionally log with identifying information via a network request if you are trying to debug their scripts)
Surely there's a way to trick their site into believing I have a normal adblock-free browser. Even a per-site whitelist kind of thing, whereby popular sites with adblock detection can be dealt with via addon scripts - say for uBlock.