9 Best Articles in 2022
The Intercept
Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On.
The Intercept
3 min read · From 2017 · Google’s ad blocker, far from a benign offering, is another step toward dominating the internet itself. · Shared by 37, including Gerd Leonhard, Jean-Patrick, FEELFETCH, Christopher Sikkenga, Merkstatt, Thomas Power, Nick Lüthi, Howard Getson
The Verge
Google’s Chrome ad blocking arrives tomorrow and this is how it works
The Verge
4 min read · From 2018 · Google is enabling its built-in ad blocker for Chrome tomorrow (February 15th). Chrome’s ad filtering is designed to weed out some of the web’s most annoying ads, and push website owners to stop... · Shared by 123, including Dana DiTomaso, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Bernhard Huessy, Mattias Tyrberg, Mo Schuster, Chris Messina, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Nick Lüthi, Kim Dik, Nils Hitze, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Abdelsalam Smadi, Jörgen Camrath
VICE
Princeton’s Ad-Blocking Superweapon May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
VICE
6 min read · From 2017 · An ad blocker that uses computer vision appears to be the most powerful ever devised and can evade all known anti ad blockers. · Shared by 102, including grimm, Mark Kaigwa, Jacob Jarnvall, Mathew Ingram, Hugo Amsellem, Anthony Hamelle, Benoit Curdy, George M 🇪🇺, Jane, Nir Eyal
adguard.com
AdGuard publishes the world's first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
adguard.com
9 min read · Aug 30th · Manifest V3, Chrome's new extension API, is no longer an illusory threat. It's now the new reality in which dozens of ad-blocking extensions, including the AdGuard Browser extension, will (or won't)… · Shared by 61
WIRED
Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a New Business Model
WIRED
5 min read · From 2018 · Snowden’s preferred ad-blocker details how a privacy tool can actually make money without being gross. · Shared by 35, including Jochen Burkhard, hiten.eth, Dominic Grzbielok, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, dcancel.eth
ctrl.blog
Here’s how Google Chrome’s new ad blocker works
ctrl.blog
4 min read · From 2018 · Google Chrome will soon begin to block ads on some websites by default. I dug up some more information about how it will work. · Shared by 46, including Marius Bleuer, Harpreet Singh, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa
The Verge
Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions
The Verge
5 min read · Jun 10th · A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while. · Shared by 106, including Marsha Collier, Douglas Woods
TechCrunch
How Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will work when it goes live tomorrow
TechCrunch
6 min read · From 2018 · Chrome's built-in ad blocker will go live tomorrow. It's the first time Google will automatically block some ads in Chrome, but while quite a few online.. · Shared by 20, including Tim Herbig
The Verge
Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year
The Verge
7 min read · From 2017 · Google will introduce an ad blocker to Chrome early next year and is telling publishers to get ready. The warning is meant to let websites assess their ads and strip any particularly disruptive... · Shared by 22, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Stephanie A Kowalski, Kris Fannin, Thomas Power
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The Verge
Google starts testing Chrome's built-in ad blocker
The Verge
1 min read · From 2017 · Google is planning to introduce a built-in ad blocker for its Chrome browser next year. While Google has already warned publishers about the change, the ad blocker is now starting to show up in... · Shared by 10, including Thomas Power, Nick Lüthi
ZDNET
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
ZDNET
4 min read · From 2019 · Other browser makers don't seem to be on board with Google's decision to neuter its extensions API, and essentially, ad blockers. · Shared by 40, including Christophe Jean, George M 🇪🇺, Yvette Dubel, Cory Doctorow, ₵BZ, Matthew Turland, BrendanEich, Charles Baldwin
Seth Godin
Seth's Blog: Ad blocking
Seth Godin
5 min read · From 2015 · By most accounts, more and more people are automatically blocking the ads in their browser. Of course, people have been blocking ads forever. By ignoring them. Fifteen years ago, when I began writing about Permission Marketing, I pointed out that... · Shared by 67, including Kim Dik, George M 🇪🇺, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker, Matthew Guay, Erick Mazer Yamashita, ₵BZ, Chris Messina, Martin Weigert, Mathias Menzl, Jeremy Caplan
The Wall Street Journal
Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year
The Wall Street Journal
3 min read · From 2017 · Google has told publishers it will give them at least six months to prepare for a new ad-blocking tool the company is planning to introduce in its Chrome web browser next year, according to people… · Shared by 15, including Matthew Turland, Thomas Power, Nick Lüthi, Mathew Ingram
TNW
iOS 9 content blocker will transform the mobile Web
TNW
6 min read · From 2015 · iOS 9 comes with a new feature called 'content blockers' which allow developers to build apps for blocking advertisements. Here's how well it works. · Shared by 69, including Nick Lüthi, ThomNagy, Richard Joerges, Jean Decherf, Mathias Menzl, René Stalder, dpmab, Niklaus Gerber, Phil Amour, Leonid Bugaev
audienceops.com
How Ad Blockers Impact Paid Content Promotion
audienceops.com
7 min read · From 2018 · Ad blocker use has been on the rise - what does this means for content marketers with paid promotion? · Shared by 29, including Matthew J. Adams, Will Preston, Peter Wennersten, Aaron Agius
xy2.dev
How an anti ad-blocker works: Reverse-engineering BlockAdBlock
xy2.dev
20+ min read · From 2020 · How I reversed an ad-blocker blocker and learned some history about ad-blocking. · Shared by 11, including Simone Corsi 💻🚀
TechCrunch
Google said to be planning a built-in ad-blocker for Chrome
TechCrunch
6 min read · From 2017 · Google is planning to add an ad blocker to Chrome, its web browser, and to possibly turn it on by default for all users. That seems counterintuitive, for a company that makes the majority of its… · Shared by 12, including Nicolas Dengler
Ad Age
The Financial Times Decides to Get Creative With Ad-Blocker Blocking
Ad Age
5 min read · From 2016 · The Financial Times, on Wednesday, began testing a series of approaches to combatting the rise of ad-blocking technology. · Shared by 26, including Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦕, Mathias Menzl, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Kim Dik, Nick Lüthi, Mathew Ingram
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