YouTube is cracking down on the use of ad blockers on its site, with the Google-owned streaming service warning people to disable the privacy-preserving tools. YouTube is cracking down on the use of ...

The growing popularity of ad-blocking services like Adblock Plus is a serious concern for sites that rely on ad revenue to survive. Take the New York Times, for example. It recently started presenting ...

Google has confirmed that the latest YouTube slowdown has nothing to do with ad blockers. The problem seemed to stem from the previous AdBlock and AdBlock Plus updates. Both ad blockers have now ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular ad-blocking tool, today announced ...

Site ads are a nuisance, we all know that. Some of them are obnoxious in the extreme, such as videos that autoplay without your approval. This has given rise to advertising blockers, most notably ...

But ad blocking extensions typically remove ads as well as blocking them. For banner ads that means gaining back screen real estate on the webpage, while for videos that means the content starts ...