If you’re using an ad blocker to filter out online commercials, then beware: You might be vulnerable to a new attack revealed on Monday that enables hackers to compromise your browser.
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Keybase browser extension weakness discovered
Respected researcher Wladimir Palant has recommended users “uninstall the Keybase browser extension ASAP” after discovering a gap in its end-to-end encryption.
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.
Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015
The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.
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.