Dawn of the Geeks

Long ago I wrote Server Side Javascript Check as a theory for how to detect if users have JS enabled on their browser without having to trust the client. Well it’s now running on the main page of IcarusIndie.com and it works nicely. For now it’s just an experiment to see how many visitors have JS enabled and to work out any bugs.

Google AdSense relies on JS being enabled in order for the ads to display. In fact, lots of ad types rely on JavaScript and many sites rely on those ads in order to pay the bills so visitors don’t have to. Once the server knows how if JS is enabled or not, the possibilities are endless. Marketing drones are worried that the prevelence of ad blocking browsers may be the end of ad revenue on the net. This isn’t entirely true. There are a lot of way to encourage users to view the ads. Ways to make it more annoying to not allow the ads to display.

Anyway, we’ll see what this little experiment turns up.