Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox’s privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.
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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.
You make your PRIVATE key PUBLIC, right? [Chet Chat Podcast 218]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Enjoy!
After iOS 9 launches, Ad blockers top the App Store chart
Users lost no time in blockading their iPhones against adverts after Apple gave them the chance in the launch of iOS 9.
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.