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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 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 ...

“We’re looking into what the problem might be, but at the moment it would appear to be an issue on YouTube’s side,” Adblock Plus head of operations Ben Williams told VentureBeat. “Let’s hope for a ...

Adblock Plus parent eyeo has named the first members of its Acceptable Ads Committee (AAC), an independent group that will take control of the Acceptable Ads program. It’s been rather quiet on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If sites hadn't opted to have obnoxious adverts (Ars included, everyone remembers the old LG ad, and currently there seems to be a large ad which sometimes appears at the top of the screen, pushing ...