ad blocking
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YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-less Vids
Google is testing how it can stop users from watching ad-free videos as ad revenue declines.
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Facebook Takes Aim at Ad Blockers, Hits Blind Users and Researchers Instead
It turns out Facebook’s apparent attempts to thwart investigations into its platform aren’t only harming ad blockers, researchers, and regulators, but users of its platform, too. That’s according to a new report in the Markup detailing how a recent tweak to Facebook’s News Feed meant to hamper researchers came with the unintended side effect of…