For the past few months, privacy activists have been accusing publishers that detect (and forbid entry to) adblock users of breaking the law. This past week,…
Last week, GroupM, the world’s largest media investment and technology group, started advising buyers to cease purchases of inventory from companies working on ad-reinsertion technologies. What’s ad reinsertion? Tech…
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…
Does not apply The full current text of the EU GDPR is now available online. After reading the entire document, what is clear is that the “personal data” protections afforded…
Adblocking companies are sprouting up across the digital landscape, all making similar promises of a “better Internet”. From the industry leaders like the original Adblock…
While the rants of a particular activist bent on misrepresenting technology seem to be capturing the ears of Eurocrats this week — it might serve as…
Last week Twitter lit up when the European Commission indicated anti-adblocking technologies like BlockAdblock may be “illegal”. Before getting into why this position is based on a technological misunderstanding…
The new Brave browser produced by Javascript-inventor Brendan Eich, promises to “solve” the problem of ad blocking by offering users a choice — and by…
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.…