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Apple restricts adblocking extensions
Apple has turned off the ability for adblocking companies to use their own blocking mechanisms in Safari.
Firefox won’t follow Chrome’s anti-ad-blocker changes, says Mozilla
Mozilla has told developers not to fret – it won’t follow Google in tweaking its browser to be unfriendly to ad blocking software.
Firefox to start blocking ad-tracking by default
Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox’s privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.
Apple iOS 9 Safari opens the flood gates to ad-blocking
Meanwhile, Chrome users got a scare when Google (inadvertently: WHEW!) disabled AdBlock in YouTube. Cue painfully long video ads.
Amazon bans Flash ads – but not for the reason you may have hoped!
Amazon has said “No” to Flash – but the aim is to improve your experience, not your security. Nevertheless, it’s a ban on Flash.
Former Googler fights adblockers with adblocker blocker
Somebody formerly at Google – a somebody who was close to the enormous sucking sound of lost advertising revenues – has decided to fight the adblockers.
AdBlock Plus is legal, rules German court
Two German publishers have lost a court case that sought to brand popular ad blocker AdBlock Plus as illegal and anti-competitive.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft pay to get ads past Adblock Plus
Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising.