Their obnoxious donation banners have a knack for evading ad blockers too. Imagine if they put that kind of effort into making something people want to donate to.
Evading an ad blocker with an in-house ad is trivial. Ad blockers work off of blacklists of known bad sites or files, so unless someone specifically adds Wikipedia's banner to the blacklist it will be shown.
Their obnoxious donation banners have a knack for evading ad blockers too. Imagine if they put that kind of effort into making something people want to donate to.
Evading an ad blocker with an in-house ad is trivial. Ad blockers work off of blacklists of known bad sites or files, so unless someone specifically adds Wikipedia's banner to the blacklist it will be shown.