Stop Visitors Using Ad-Blocking Programs and taking your revenue away!

As a webmaster, I feel that its our right to earn a small amount of money off visitors who use our serverces or resources, now many people are using ad-blocking software to block any ads being displayed, whether it be 468's, skyscrapers and popups. Now so many sites depend on this advertisment revenue to continue the basis of their site; they give something to the community and have to pay for the web hosting someway, and often this is through advertising, and people are using the site, and not providing an impression let alone a click on the banner(s)

What someone (maybe even me, with some help!) should do is create a script or program that is placed on a server (a program) or a script (javascript maybe) on the webpage that will detect whether an ad-blocker program is active or not, and if a ad-blocker is active it would refer the visitor to a page that will say "please disable any ad-blocking software before entering the site" or something, and then a link that explains "why we prevent visitors with ad-blockign software to enter the site?" and when they dsiable the ad-blocking program, they cna enter the site.
There could be a text file on the server which includes all the current ad-blocking software, and a script calls up this text file to detect the ad-blocking program, a user can update this text file with any new ad-blocking software.

I can provide a website and promotion/exposure for this script/program free of charge.

Now I also know that the people visiting sites have the right to also block ads, but its killing off advertising and revenue. If so many people werent using these "ad-blocking" software then I dont think that popups would be displayed as much as webmasters would be generating money off conventional banners such as 468's etc. If visitors dont like the banners then they don't have to visit the site, and that what this program could bluntly but fairly determine.

Or maybe a similar program already exisits?

What are your thoughs on this?

I browse almost exclusivly with mozilla and konqueror. I can see banner ads, but I can't see pop-ups, which I can't stand. I would never buy something through a pop-up ad, I hate it when 3 or 4 of them will jump on the screen. However, banner ads I find to be unobtrusive, and I have clicked on many of them.

my thoughts on that are if you want to block people that dont want to see adds from comeing into your site then your loss...I personally dont believe people are ganna turn off add block to visit certain sites if they did have this program. Thats just because of the fact that they can get the same information one site provides from 100 others. If people dont want to be spammed like crazy they have a right to block adds.(this is comeing from sum1 that does not use add blocking) but have my own add free website. Besides people that use add blocking are the people that refuse to click on an add in the first place...they probibly wont ever click on an add so you wont get revenue from them anyways

How is it even possible for an ad-blocking app to block banner ads? They're just a DIV. What does it do, prevent all divs? That would really screw up the layout of most sites!

And if you want a way to keep people from seeing a website unless the popup opens... you're overlooking something. You don't need a list of popup blockers and code to detect them. Common sense, man... what do popup blockers do? Always? By definition? They block popups. So make your pages call a popup without which the page cannot be viewed. One example would be to make a layer that would cover the entire browser window, let's call it "layer1", and make it follow if they try to scroll or whatever... make the DIV be right after the body tag, and then after the DIV tag put a script calling the popup. The popup will look something like this...

If the popup loads, it makes the DIV disappear and they can see your page, if it doesn't, the DIV remains and the person can't see the page. You could put whatever you wanted in the DIV telling them why they couldn't see the page.

That said, keep in mind: If I wanted a popup blocker enough to bother with getting one, I would be royally irritated if someone *did* make a page that I couldn't view without disabling the popup blocker. Rather than disabling the popup blocker so as to be able to view the page, I would just not go to the page.