A number of
AdBlock users find that it can use a lot of browser memory and slow down response time.
It's the circumvention of access controls which in attempt to limit access to
adblock users.
Reddit's Technology Subreddit Ponders Banning Wired & Forbes For Blocking
Adblock Users (Techdirt) Can you have it both ways?
If a website has taken active measures to prevent access by
adblocking users, and your adblocker circumvents those measures — this is very likely a violation of the DMCA.
Not exact matches
Users of the
Adblock Plus browser extension can choose to see no ads at all.
Eeyo, the maker of
Adblock Plus, just announced a new ad - free mobile browser for Android
users downloadable from the Android Play Store, while another Israeli company called Shine is currently testing mobile ad blocking for several unnamed mobile carriers in Europe.
In a blog post, however,
AdBlock also said the move would be beneficial to
users who would see less intrusive advertising.
While some
users might take umbrage at websites borrowing their electricity and CPU cycles, if done right, this innovation could end the ads /
adblock arms race and alter the way individuals interact with websites.
Adblock Plus will help
users pay publishers and keep a cut for itself (Ars Technica) Is this a solution to the website revenue problem?
As a Firefox
user, I use add - ons like NoScript,
Adblock Plus, and Ghostery to disable many tracking features across many websites, regardless of the choices made by the web developers involved.
We ad - haters can also celebrate the increase of
adblocking, with over 26 percent of the desktop
users blocking ads and around 16 percent on mobile.
Adblock plus, with prefbar, allows me to set a different
user agent than it actually is, turn off javascript, cookies, referral, so I can browse even the most toxic sites without worry of infection or endless popup loops.
Internet Explorer
users should take a look at Simple
Adblock, Firefox
users can pick up the
Adblock Plus add - on, and Chrome and Safari
users should check out
Adblock for Chrome and Safari.
A fake
AdBlock Plus extension made its way to Chrome's official Web Store and was downloaded 37,000 times by
users across the globe.
Adblockers like Adguard and
Adblock Plus will scan if a site is having Coin Hive and will alert
users about it.
The company has teamed up with
Adblock Fast to roll out
adblocking to hundreds of millions of its
users via an over-the-air update to its web browser.