On Tuesday, Facebook announced it will begin showing ads in desktop browsers “for people who currently use ad blocking software.” Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocking tool with over 500 million ...

The developers of AdBlock Plus, an extension for Firefox that blocks advertising on websites, are trying to contain a brewing controversy over their decision to allow some non-flashy ads to be ...

Not open for further replies. If ads were not so intrusive and quite frankly a bandwidth hog and security risk, we'd not be in this situation. In this case, I'm afraid the advertisers can only blame ...

A popular platform for blocking ads on websites announced it is launching a service to allow some ads on the screens of users. Eyeo GmbH, the owner of Adblock Plus, said the “Acceptable Ads Platform” ...

If sites hadn't opted to have obnoxious adverts (Ars included, everyone remembers the old LG ad, and currently there seems to be a large ad which sometimes appears at the top of the screen, pushing ...

Eyeo is known for ad blocking, but it’s got its eye on ad filtering. On Tuesday, eyeo, which is the parent company of AdBlock and Adblock Plus – two of the most-downloaded standalone ad blockers – ...

NEW YORK — Internet users who install ad-blocking software to escape annoying advertisements may actually be seeing more problematic content than people who browse without any protection at all.

Adblock Plus already blocks all Facebook ads, including sponsored stories, page post ads, standard ads, promoted posts, and so on. Starting today however, the service is taking its blocking powers ...

As it turns out, you’re not really safe from annoying ads on the Internet anymore. Slate is reporting that Adblock Plus is going against its namesake and allowing companies to pay to have their ...

“The Internet advertising landscape has evolved from being an annoying experience to something more insidious,” said Maxthon founder and CEO Jeff Chen. “This partnership with Adblock Plus provides our ...

A series of developments over the past week have given rise to a narrative that mobile ad blocking represents a large new threat to publisher revenues. Two mobile ad-blocking products had their debut: ...

But ad blocking extensions typically remove ads as well as blocking them. For banner ads that means gaining back screen real estate on the webpage, while for videos that means the content starts ...