Sentences with phrase «level ad blocking»

One of the Czech Republic's biggest Internet service providers has set the country's online media on edge by saying it's considering introducing network - level ad blocking.

Sources at the European Commission and the European Parliament have confirmed that network - level ad blocking would therefore be illegal, unless individual EU countries pass specific legislation to exempt it from the bloc - wide net neutrality rules.

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According to a European Parliament source, network - level ad - blocking would be illegal under the new rules unless countries pass similar legislation to legalize it.

It's worth noting that French broadband provider Free tried turning on network - level ad - blocking a few years back, in a bid to get money out of Google, but the government told it to stop.

Three might be the lucky carrier group to test out this theory, but don't forget that its U.K. operation is about to merge (pending regulatory approval) with local rival O2, meaning around 40 percent of the country's subscribers might find themselves with network - level ad - blocking on the menu.

It's one thing for individuals to use ad - blocking tools in their browsers, and quite another for operators to do the same at the network level.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

That ad blocking is now being considered something to be rolled out on an industry level is the first step to reducing the intrusiveness of online advertisements.

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Yet people still find ways around these hurdles, because rooting allows them to uninstall bloatware, block ads, and apply cool system - level mods and tweaks, among other things.

However, it's impossible to deny — one big reason many people root their devices is to block ads at the system level.

Rooting your device gives you access to these top folders so that you can make system - level changes such as getting rid of bloatware apps, blocking ads in apps, or even modifying your SystemUI to give your device a completely new look and feel.

Unlike other VPN - based ad - blockers, DNS66 blocks ads at the DNS level.

Unlike its competitors, Klode's ad - blocking app works at the DNS level, meaning that it only filters traffic for a brief moment when connections are first made, which is where all of the battery saving comes into play.

While Bitcoin Unlimited is supposed to hand control of the block size limit over to both users and (all) miners, low AD levels ensure that even the slightest majority of miners can always overrule local block size settings by simply mining a series of bigger blocks.