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Adblock Plus Wins 6th Court Case Attempting to Shut it Down
Adblock Plus made by Eyeo GmbH has faced the lawsuit brought by Germany’s Spiegel Online head-on and won. The lawsuit is of course an effort to shut down the popular ad-blocking tool and as Eyeo head of communications, Ben Williams puts it succinctly “Every single case wants to do the…
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Adblock Plus Beats Facebook’s Unblockable Ads
Facebook has been working on a way to make ad-blockers obsolete on its own platform, and it recently implemented this ad blocker-proof format a little while ago. However, even though it was relatively successful at first, Adblock Plus has already figured out a way to shut down this system, at…
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Ad Blocking Detection Could be Against EU Law
In recent months, there has been an organised reaction against ad blocking software from a number of high-profile websites, including Wired and Forbes, but a discovery by a privacy advocacy organisation may indicate that detecting user settings, like using an ad blocker, is against European Union law. Alexander Hanff, CEO…
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AdBlock Has a New Owner and No One Knows Who
Popular Chrome and Safari browser extension AdBlock has been quietly sold, and no one seems to know who the new owner is. Yesterday, users of AdBlock – rebranded from its former guise as AdBlock Plus – may have seen a pop-up announcing that, in contravention of the entire principle of…
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Google Chrome Starts Bypassing AdBlock Plus
Reports on Twitter suggest that Google Chrome has started to bypass the popular AdBlock Plus extension. AdBlock and its variants have long been the bane of commercial websites, with drops in revenue blamed directly on advert blocking software. Google in particular has been hit by use of the extension, which…
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Man Trying to Smash “All the Ad Blockers” After Google Loses $6.6 Billion in Advertising
Google has lost $6.6 billion in advertising revenue due to third-party ad-blocking software, such as AdBlock Plus. In an effort to tackle the problem and help companies like Google reclaim some of its lost advertising revenue, former Google employee Ben Barokas has set up a new company to smash “all…
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Adblock Plus is Coming to Your Android Device!
With huge success in the Chrome market, the hugely popular AdBlock Plus team are taking their talents and using them to bring us an automatic ad blocking phone browser that they say will “block annoying ads automatically, saving users battery speed, keeping them safe and handing them control while they’re…
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AdBlock Plus Ruled Legal by German Court
Despite being the life-blood of many websites, some internet users understandably find online ads annoying, especially when they are intrusive and impair their ability to engage with a site (for the record, all of eTeknix’s ads are tastefully placed, unobtrusive, and will bring you great wealth, long life, and the…
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Google, Microsoft and Amazon pay to Bypass AdBlock
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Taboola have been paying the German owners of AdBlock Plus to make sure that their adverts sneak through the advert blocker’s algorithms. The confidential deal between the companies and AdBlock owners Eyeo was uncovered by the Financial Times. AdBlock Plus, the popular Chrome and Firefox extension,…
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Go Incognito on Facebook: AdBlock Plus Can Bypass ‘Seen’ Message Notifications
Open source content filter Adblock Plus announced an appealing new feature on Tuesday: the plugin can now prevent ‘seen’ notifications from appearing below opened Facebook messages. AdBlock’s blog used the following example to illustrate the feature: “[W]hat if you don’t want them to know you’ve read their message? Why? Well,…
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Google Paying Adblock Plus To White-list Unobtrusive Adverts
After Google recently cheesed a lot of people off by removing Ad-blocking Apps from the Google Play Store, it turns out they are now resorting to paying Adblocking App companies to white-list Google adverts. According to Horizont.at Google is funding the developers of the AdBlock Plus App to create a…
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