AdBlock friendly statistics

Adblock scripts are getting better by the minute.
A lot of the adblock subscriptions kick out CrazyStat nowadays. Their detection mechanism is fairly simple, though. They just search for “stat” in any scripts, divs or image names and block these out.

So all we have to do is to avoid anything with “stat” in the name. Some years back, I installed CrazyStat into a stat subfolder. That doesn’t work well anymore. I renamed it to “zähler”, which is the german word for “counting” – it doesn’t get blocked (for now).

After that, I went to src/include.php and changed some bad references. Make sure to duplicate the stat.php and name it zählen.php afterwards:

include.patch

Heureka – it works! You can try it out on http://www.kawaii-blog.org in Google Chrome. Install the Adblock extension, enable all filters and you can see that the counter still counts.