The use of ad blockers is against our terms of use.
Recently, a German court ruled to allow
the use of ad blocker Adblock Plus.
Not exact matches
Adblock Plus is pitching this as a great package for publishers that know a lot
of their readers are likely to be
using ad -
blockers — gaming sites, tech sites, and so on.
With some publishers currently trying to block people who
use ad -
blockers, there's probably a lot
of convincing that needs to take place.
And 80 %
of those who have downloaded
ad blockers continue to
use them.
The survey showed that people are most likely to switch off their
ad blocker only for their favorite or most frequently -
used sites, though — and even that was only 31 %
of respondents.
The numbers
of people in the U.K. who are downloading and
using ad -
blockers are shooting up, if a survey commissioned by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is to be believed.
They put less trust and stock in
ads and even
use ad blockers en masse, which has dampened the success
of many marketing campaigns.
Action:
Use an
ad blocker Who is this for: Everyone who can support the moral burden How difficult is it: Fairly easy these days but you might be locked out
of the content on some news websites as a result Tell me more: If you've tried
using a tracker
blocker, you may have noticed that many
ads have been blocked in the process.
Action:
Use tracker
blockers Who is this for: Everyone — except people who like being
ad - stalked online How difficult is it: Mild effort Tell me more: Trackers refers to a whole category
of privacy - hostile technologies designed to follow and record what web users are doing as they move from site to site, and even across different devices.
In their study, 20 %
of participants
used to have
ad blockers but turned them off, either because the publisher asked them to in order to view content, or because the
ad blocker itself blocked content they wanted to see.
We've noticed that you're
using an
ad blocker Our content is brought to you free
of charge because
of the support
of our advertisers.
Ad blockers are still relatively new, but the numbers
of online news consumers
using them in the U.S. (24 percent) and U.K. (21 percent) are already significant and likely to grow.
iCab also allows me to filter content, a more definable
ad blocker, which allows me to block the loading
of ads, like that annoying «kontara» pop - up
ad that MacNN
uses.
Today, an article that expresses the view that
using an
ad blocker is like
using sunblock — it's an act
of self protection.
1) Disable
ad - blocking software or cookie
blockers (if you don't know what they are, it's unlikely you're
using them so it's less
of an issue).
I'd like to inform you that I'm
using an
ad blocker now because
of how horrible
ad networks are with their attempts to follow you around the web and sell whatever data they can scrape up to whoever they can.
I don't see any other way for them to maintain revenue given the high %
of people
using ad blockers.
With AdBlock doing a huge amount
of damage to revenue (up to 50 %
of gamers
use Ad Blockers when browsing websites), competition getting fiercer by the day and events like GamerGate doing serious damage to its future sustainability, there are very real worries the field might disappear within the next few years or so.
If you're patched, this is less
of a problem, but it's a reason to consider
using an
ad blocker.
Now, I will say that ever since I've been
using ad - blocking technology, the number
of websites that say, «We see you're
using an
ad -
blocker.
At the top
of your screen in your search engine results (provided you're not
using an
ad blocker), in addition to the right column
of your results page, you will see links to other websites.
Popup
ads have become so obnoxious that we are increasingly
using ad blockers to get rid
of them.
And frankly, most
of these iPhone
ad blockers are going to be pretty similar; they all
use the same limited API that Apple provides them.
While I personally don't believe that people are
using ad blockers to shave milliseconds off
of web page load times, I do believe that
ad blockers are playing a big part
of preserving online privacy and it seems like Brave team is hoping to position themselves at the center
of this.
Here are instructions for disabling your
ad blocker if you're
using one
of the two most common pieces
of ad - block software inside
of Chrome, the most popular browser on our site (instructions should be extremely similar for other browsers).
Installing the 1
Blocker ad blocker on the iPhone reduced battery usage for the same test to only 9 percent
of a full battery; on an Android phone,
using the Ghostery Privacy Browser, which blocks
ads,
used only 8 percent
of the battery.
And on top
of that, the massive amount
of targeting, pinging and cookies make the experience
of using services very slow and data - heavy, which has led to the rise in popularity
of ad blockers.
«There have also been a number
of cases where third - party
ad blockers have been
used as a disguise for malicious apps,» he told the E-Commerce Times.
MonaChain will combat
ad fraud, while MonaBrowse will prevent the growth
of 700 million devices that
use ad -
blockers.
However, what was once thought about as the preserve
of hackers has increasingly become a mainstream way for websites to monetise their content, particularly now the increased
use of ad -
blockers has reduced the revenue these sites can receive.
American news and opinion website Salon is resorting to
using its readers» PCs to mine cryptocurrency in order to make up for the loss
of revenue due to
ad blockers.
A pop - up (screenshot below) appears when one accesses the homepage
of Salon
using a browser that has an
ad blocker installed.
At the end
of the process, we chose whether to
use Kaspersky's
ad blocker.