Admiral Protect: Server-Side Technology to Block More Adblockers and Paywall Loopholes

Server-Side Protection: Adblockers, Paywalls, Offers

Admiral Protect is the best server-side detection and access control tool on the market, ensuring every revenue and engagement offer is seen—no matter what blockers your visitors use. Use it to power adblock recovery, paywall access, newsletter modals, and more.

Publishers pour resources into carefully designed paywalls, newsletter modals, and recovery prompts—but militant adblockers can erase every one of them before a reader even notices. Without a server‑side implementation like Protect, those critical engagement moments vanish, leaving revenue, registrations, and premium content vulnerable to blockers.

Publisher Benefits

• Content Protection That Works
  
  Server-side enforcement ensures your paywalls, adblock messages, and offers are seen—even against militant adblockers.

• Maximized Revenue Across Channels
  
  Pair Protect with Convert and Transact to maximize subscriptions, donations, email signups, and more—enhanced with content access controls.

• Bulletproof Adblock Detection
  
  Built on Admiral’s industry leading adblock detection technology, Protect closes the loopholes that client-side scripts can’t catch.

• First-Party Shielding with Proxy
  
  Optional Proxy routes calls through your domain making it even harder for militant blockers to circumvent paywalls and adblock walls, protecting your conversions.

• Easy Setup, Immediate Impact
  
  Install the Admiral Protect WordPress plugin or NodeJS library and launch your first engagement in minutes—no dev-heavy lift required. 

Key Features

Modern blockers strip scripts, rotate filter lists daily, and blacklist recovery domains. Admiral Protect leverages both client-side and server-side technology to stop the most militant blockers.

Enhancing adblock detection protocols is only the first win:

1. Protect Journeys

Protect Journeys have server‑side checkpoints and advanced adblock detection technology. If the Admiral tag or an engagement does not load Admiral's server-side protections withholds the content:

2. Custom Engagements, Targeting, & Proxy

Publishers can create unlimited Protect Journeys with a singular engagement. Set targeting parameters, customize messaging with the Engage Editor.

• Custom Engagements – Fully brand and customize an engagement's layout, look, and feel.Use Automated Messaging Variants to A/B test tone and message length:
  
   

• Targeting – Target by adblock status, logged out status, or by benefit. Include or exclude articles from journey's with article tags:
  
  

• Proxy – An optional feature that routes calls to Admiral through a publisher’s own domain, reducing paywall bypass and detection by militant adblockers.
  
  Toggle on Proxy from the Admiral Protect Plugin settings:
  
  

3. Content Access Control Across Offers

Admiral Protect integrateS with other revenue-driving modules, further enhancing access control and conversion rates. Now, publishers can extend these benefits to Admiral Transact and Admiral Convert offers, such as:

• Newsletters, Social Media, and Registrations
  
  
  
  
• Paid Subscriptions and Donations
  
  

Implement Server-Side Protect in 3 Easy Steps

Explore 1 of 3 install methods found under "Install" in the Admiral App, including downloading the Admiral Protect WordPress Plugin, API Install, and a NodeJS Library option.

Customers that already have the Admiral VRM tag-on-site can skip to Step 2  and start creating Protect Journeys in minutes! 

• Step 1: Create a free Admiral Account, here. Add the Admiral Tag to your WordPress site.
  
  
• Step 2: Under Install, select click “WordPress Plugin” to download. Install and Activate the Admiral Protect Plugin.
  
  
  • Alternatively, publishers can select an API Install or NodeJS Library Install to activate the Server-Side Protect functionality.
    
    
• Step 3: From your WordPress Dashboard click "Settings", select Admiral:
  
  
  • Toggle on "Protect" to enable server-side protections.
    
    
  • Optionally, toggle on "Proxy" to send requests through your domain. 
    

Have Questions?

Want to ask about using Server-Side Protect with CMS platforms? Schedule time to talk with our Customer Love team by reaching out to customerlove@getadmiral.