How I Built a Lightweight WordPress Plugin to Combat AdBlockers & Security Threats (WAF) (opens in new tab)

As web developers and content creators, we face two major, silent battles every single day: Revenue loss due to aggressive AdBlockers eating up 30-40% of our ad impressions. Brute-force and security attacks constantly hammering wp-login.php and bloating our databases with logs. To solve this on my own heavy-traffic news site, I looked at existing plugins. Unfortunately, most of them are incredibly bloated, load heavy external JS libraries, or slow down server response times. So, I decided to ...