I hate ads. Hold up, stop, don’t bother telling me I hate America, because I don’t — I just hate ads. I can maybe count on one hand (and off the top of my head, one finger) the number of ads over the ...

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 ...

Adblock Plus' big announcement that it is going to start selling ads with the launch of its first ad exchange didn't exactly get off to a good start — with Google and AppNexus publicly denouncing the ...

A series of developments over the past week have given rise to a narrative that mobile ad blocking represents a large new threat to publisher revenues. Two mobile ad-blocking products had their debut: ...

Google recently booted most ad-blocking software for Android from the Play Store. But there’s nothing stopping you from downloading and installing apps from other sources on most Android devices… so ...

Recently, Apple announced plans to allow the use of ad-blockers on Safari for the very first time. Granted, this will only be available to users on the latest iOS 9 release, but Eyeo, the company ...

The developers of AdBlock Plus, an extension for Firefox that blocks advertising on websites, are trying to contain a brewing controversy over their decision to allow some non-flashy ads to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many users report that YouTube videos automatically skip to the end or muting video if they are using an ad blocker, making it impossible for them to watch the video. The issue began yesterday, and ...

For the second time in two months a German court has ruled that Adblock Plus, the browser extension for filtering ads, is legal. On Wednesday the Munich Regional Court ruled against media companies ...