Google is said to be developing an ad blocker for its Chrome web browser. Sounds weird, right? Google makes most of its money through advertising, so why would the company start blocking ads by default in what’s arguably the world’s most widely used web browser? According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s a self-defense move. […]
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Adblock Plus mobile browser launches for iOS, Android
The makers of the popular Adblock Plus software which is designed to block ads and other scripts in desktop web browsers launched a web browser for Android as a public beta earlier this year. Now the browser is out of beta… and it’s also available for iOS. You can download the Adblock Browser from the App […]
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Adblock Plus launches an Android web browser
The makers of Adblock Plus offer web browser plugins that let you surf the web without encountering ads… or at least without seeing ads that have been deemed “acceptable” if you choose not to disable that feature. There are Adblock Plus plugins for a range of browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and for Android […]
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Report: Some mobile carriers could block ads
A number of wireless carriers are reportedly planning to block online advertising on their networks. Don’t like ads? Then that might sound like a good thing. But it poses a few interesting questions. According to a report from the Financial Times, more than one mobile operator is considering flipping the switch on technology that would […]
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AdBlock Vocab for Chrome replaces online ads with GRE vocabulary words
Folks have been using AdBlock and similar tools to strip ads from webpages almost as long as there have been ads on webpages. But while many of those browser plugins will replace ads with a blank spot on the page, AdBlock Vocab aims to replace ads with something useful: GRE vocabulary words. Basically AdBlock Vocab turns […]
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Google is booting ad blockers from the Play Store, Android
Google recently rolled out updates to Android that, among other things, prevented many popular ad-blocking apps from running on devices that aren’t rooted. Now Google is going a step further and removing a number of ad blockers from the Play Store, which will make it tougher to install those apps even if you do have a […]