Last week Facebook announced a blow-out quarter, raking in a whopping $7.01B in revenue. Facebook now has an incredible 1.66 billion monthly active users (or…
This is a continuation of Part I – where we discussed malware, the phony “moral” arguments of adblockers and the rising problem of walled-gardens. “Find a…
For any UK web-publishers still hoping that the ad blocking problem will stabilize, it’s time to accept that hope is not a strategy: At current…
If you’re asking yourself whether or not you should block ad-blockers on your website, there has probably never been a clearer answer than this: Yes. It works.…
There’s a debate raging among online publishers whether or not visitors who use Adblock to block ads with should be blocked from accessing their websites. On…
When Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla and inventor of JavaScript announced last week that he was not only producing a new web-browser, but that his new browser…
One of the biggest buzzwords in the online ad industry for 2015 has been “native advertising“, or advertising which is cleverly camouflaged to match the other (“native”)…
At this point, most publishers have heard of the “Acceptable Ads” scheme supported by AdBlock Plus creator Eyeo GmbH. The controversial initiative involves charging publishers a fee to bypass adblocking…
Everyone knows that Adblock hurts small publishers and website owners by depriving them of revenue, but the effects of adblocking go far deeper than most…
I spend a good amount of time on forums discussing adblocking technology. But I’ve also spent quite a bit of time discussing adblocking directly with those who…