Ad blocker usage surged 30% in 2016, according to a new report from PageFair, a company that helps publishers regain revenue lost to the software. There were 615 million devices blocking ads worldwide ...

anti-ad blockers to block ad blockers, and popular ad blockers like Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin are no longer working on YouTube. FadBlock is an ad blocker that claims to be able to use it on ...

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YouTube recently took dramatic action against anyone visiting its site with an ad blocker running — after a few pieces of content, it'll simply stop serving you videos. If you want to get past the ...

Starting tomorrow, February 15, Google will begin to block certain types of online ads using a new built-in ad blocking technology it announced last June. Below are the basic things a user needs to ...

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After a few months of testing, YouTube has opened the floodgates to its blocking of ad blockers, and that’s led to a wave of uninstalls – but not of YouTube ...

There has been a lot of talk about mobile ad blocking lately, but on the desktop, this is an old phenomenon. Until now, however, desktop ad blocking was all about plugins. But Opera is about to change ...

A new Canary build of Chrome on Android shows how Google's native ad blocker will work. The Canary build of Chrome on Android, released on Monday, is the first instance of Chrome featuring the ad ...

The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad blocker into Google Chrome, the world's most popular ...

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