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Apple ad-blocking scares publishers but Google is the target

Apple ad-blocking software scares publishers but Google is target | Technology | The Guardian
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I'm half expecting an EU case even though everybody is at it.

I blocked ads at the start cos they were infuriating. On a mobile device they still are*, but now I block them because they're downright creepy in their behaviour.

*Giant, browser-crashing annoyances. And that's assuming the mobile site wasn't a POS to start with!

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	Quote: Earlier this year the influential analyst Mary Meeker, of the venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins, had pegged it as a $25bn opportunity in the US alone. Now the hoped-for revenues are in peril, and publishers – and people who care about free, independent news – are rightly worried.

Well, that prediction only lasted 12 hours then! A maximum of 12 hours... :lol:


	Quote: Friday 1 January 2016 12.03 GMT

I don't use any adblockers, but I do use a script blocker and on the desktop, I uninstalled Flash a year ago and haven't looked back. So they can serve me adverts, just not animated adverts, pop-overs or interactive ads, just plain JPGs or GIFs (or text).

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