AdGuard has taken the decision to reset all user accounts after suffering a credential-stuffing and brute-force password attack.
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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.
Adblocking and browser privacy can be bypassed, researchers find
Virtually every desktop browser and adblocker can have its ad-tracking privacy or security bypassed by at least one software technique, a new study has found.
More browser extensions and apps caught spying on users
The pop-up blocking function of many apps and browser extensions appears to obscure an ulterior motive – spying on a user’s web traffic.
Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
Mozilla promises all the revenue-generating analytics, none of the privacy-skewering.
Apple excommunicates adblockers that could access users’ private data
Apple’s blocked apps that installed root certificates that could have allowed them to see all of a users’ web traffic.
What your 99 cents gets you for buying an iOS adblocking app: adverts
Crystal, the top adblocking utility on iOS, agreed to a deal to let whitelisted ads through – but at least it offers an opt-out.
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.