Title: Detect Missing Adblocker
Author: Stefan Bohacek
Published: <strong>May 28, 2020</strong>
Last modified: December 3, 2025

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# Detect Missing Adblocker

 By [Stefan Bohacek](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fourtonfish/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker.zip)

 * [Details](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/)

## Description

Provide a more secure experience to your website’s visitors by notifying them if
they’re not using an ad-blocking browser extension.

[Learn more](https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/)
| [View source](https://github.com/stefanbohacek/detect-missing-adblocker)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Plugin settings.
 * [[
 * Example of the notification on your site.

## FAQ

### Can I customize the message shown to my website’s visitors?

Yes, you can update the title and the message in the plugin’s settings. Be sure 
to include some recommended plugins!

### I use an ad-blocker, why do I still see the note?

Please see if there is [an existing ticket](https://github.com/stefanbohacek/detect-missing-adblocker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Aad-detection+sort%3Aupdated-desc)
addressing your particular situation. If not, feel free to [open a new issue](https://github.com/stefanbohacek/detect-missing-adblocker/issues/new),
or [reach out and let me know](https://stefanbohacek.com/contact/).

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Outstanding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outstanding-630/)󠁿

 [Brett Dunst, SCMP](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brettface/) April 23, 2025

There aren’t many plugins that exist purely to make the web a better place. This
is one of them! Works great. Fully customizable.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6c3b61398abf4b12c34f4a77f9df4d5706cc7887b1312d56381318a8ca0535a8?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-3202/)󠁿

 [jhoujhou919530255](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jhoujhou919530255/) March 6,
2025

Does not detect any adblock. worth nothing, 100% Useless

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[What a great idea!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-a-great-idea-8/)󠁿

 [Alan Ralph](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alanralph/) August 29, 2023

Thank you Stefan!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f24d45eb74dfa6634cc0ccfd755adf9d25157d6a939e05db75aaf7979b6857e?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Neat idea!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-thanks-25/)󠁿

 [.mo.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mo-3/) August 29, 2023

Thanks! 🙂

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Detect Missing Adblocker” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Stefan Bohacek ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fourtonfish/)

“Detect Missing Adblocker” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Detect Missing Adblocker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/detect-missing-adblocker)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/detect-missing-adblocker/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/detect-missing-adblocker/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/detect-missing-adblocker/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/detect-missing-adblocker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.11

 * Fix for detecting uBlock Lite.

#### 1.1.10

 * Updated the plugin behavior to avoid the warning flashing on page load.

#### 1.1.9

 * Fixed error in previous update affecting displaying of the notice on mobile.

#### 1.1.8

 * Fixed notice appearing on mobile when disabled on sites that use heavy caching.

#### 1.1.7

 * Defer the plugin JS script.

#### 1.1.6

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.1.5

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.1.4

 * Reorganized the main JS script.

#### 1.1.3

 * Added missing files.

#### 1.1.2

 * Fixed pointer-events value.

#### 1.1.1

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.1.0

 * Allow full customization of the message shown to site visitors.

#### 1.0.4

 * Minor style updates.

#### 1.0.3

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.0.2

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.0.1

 * Updated ad detection.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.11**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/),
   [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/),
   [Greek](https://el.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/),
   and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/detect-missing-adblocker)
 * Tags
 * [adblock](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/adblock/)[ads](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ads/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  3 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Stefan Bohacek ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fourtonfish/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/detect-missing-adblocker/)

## Donate

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