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Presumably they could take advantage of Adblock's Acceptable Ads policy[0].

[0]: http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads




I don't read Destructoid, but this sounded interesting. Upon entering the site, the whole browser window was overtaken by some ad selling me malware scanning. I can totally relate to the people blocking sites which don't police their advertisers.


Mine was taken over by a movie trailer that bogged down FireFox and couldn't be closed.


He mentions in the article about how since he can't control his ad network to the extent that other major companies like Reddit does (they host their own I believe), he doesn't fall under the requirements of the AdBlock whitelist.




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