Adblock Plus users see worse ads than without it — research
Imagine: you install an ad blocker to avoid intrusive or harmful content, and you get… even more problematic ads. These digital billboards may inadvertently expose their users to more problematic content. Such conclusions were made by researchers from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. They analyzed how online…
A programmer created a real-life ad blocker
Annoyed by billboards and banners on buildings? Now there is an ad blocker that will hide them. At least, it will try to.
YouTube started showing 3-hour ads without the «skip» — option to overcome blockers
YouTube users complain that the platform now streams very long ads that cannot be skipped.
uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker has been removed from the Firefox store — now the extension is only available on GitHub
The uBlock Origin Lite extension, which allows you to block unwanted content on web pages, is no longer available in the Firefox Utility Store.
YouTube is testing server-side ad integration to better counter ad blockers
The developer of SponsorBlock, an extension designed to skip sponsored video segments, said that YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad integration.
YouTube immediately rewinds the video to the very end if the user has an activated ad blocker
It seems that YouTube continues to encourage users to disable ad blockers. The new restriction is indeed quite severe – it does not allow you to watch videos at all if you have an ad blocker activated for YouTube.
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