not a single time has a “hey, fuck you, you’re using one of those adblockers” interstitial tried the approach of saying “we ensure our ads are unobtrusive, lightweight & malware-free, so please consider not blocking our ads,” an approach which might actually get me to consider it

@ticky As much as I'd like to see this, I have no idea how it'd actually be implemented in a cost-effective manner.

But if someone figures it, they'll be placed to make a fortune.

@mwlucas like, all an ad network should allow people to host is a string, jpeg or a gif. that’s it. no html, no js, just that. metrics delivered by ad network.
@ticky Agreed. Nobody'd buy it.
@mwlucas I mean if what the valuable part is cross-site tracking and not actually the ad views, why don’t they just ask users for raw history dumps? Be direct :P