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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 ...

Google has confirmed that the latest YouTube slowdown has nothing to do with ad blockers. The problem seemed to stem from the previous AdBlock and AdBlock Plus updates. Both ad blockers have now ...

“We’re looking into what the problem might be, but at the moment it would appear to be an issue on YouTube’s side,” Adblock Plus head of operations Ben Williams told VentureBeat. “Let’s hope for a ...

The German software company eyeo GmbH, which owns Adblock Plus (ABP) and created the Acceptable Ads whitelisting program, will launch its first programmatic technology for reaching ad-blocking ...

The growing popularity of ad-blocking services like Adblock Plus is a serious concern for sites that rely on ad revenue to survive. Take the New York Times, for example. It recently started presenting ...

For the second time in two months a German court has ruled that Adblock Plus, the browser extension for filtering ads, is legal. On Wednesday the Munich Regional Court ruled against media companies ...

After a panel about ad blocking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, the makers of Adblock Plus say they will release an app that rewards good ad content. By “good” they mean ads ...

Site ads are a nuisance, we all know that. Some of them are obnoxious in the extreme, such as videos that autoplay without your approval. This has given rise to advertising blockers, most notably ...