Neowin News Feed for: Adblockers

As Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin, Brave assures it won't, flaunts its default adblock

Sayan Sen — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:06:01 +0000

Brave has reminded users about how much better it is than Google Chrome as the latter begins disabling MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin. Read more...

uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to uBlock Lite as Chrome flags the extension

Taras Buria — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:38:01 +0000

Google Chrome users with the uBlock Origin extension installed started noticing that the browser flagged the extension as "soon to be unsupported." Here is why this happens and what to do with it. Read more...

Adblock: Google did not slow down and lag YouTube performance with ad blocker on

Sayan Sen — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:42:02 +0000

According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all. Read more...

YouTube appears to be slowing itself down upon detecting ad blockers

Steve Bennett — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:58:01 +0000

In YouTube's continuing war against ad-blocking users, it's being discovered that the site has enabled code that slows itself down, with immediate recovery once the user turns off their ad blocker. Read more...

YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer

Omer Dursun — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:50:01 +0000

YouTube is testing a popup for non-Premium users that urges them to disable adblockers with a countdown timer. It emphasizes the features of YouTube Premium so its creators can be paid. Read more...

YouTube limits viewers to three videos if an adblocker is detected

Paul Hill — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:46:01 +0000

YouTube has begun trialling a popup that asks users with adblockers to allow ads on the platform. It imposes a hard limit of three ad-free videos before you have to disable the adblocker. Read more...

YouTube confirms that it is testing out blocking ad blockers on the site

Steve Bennett — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:22:01 +0000

Recent observations from users across the internet, later confirmed by YouTube, have found that when trying to use the site, a prompt comes up preventing playback until ad blockers are disabled. Read more...

Google gives adblockers in Chrome another year as it postpones Manifest V3

Taras Buria — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:10:01 +0000

Following consumer backlash, Google has decided to give Manifest V2-based extensions another year and postpone their removal from Chrome and its Web Store to January 2024 instead of January 2023. Read more...

The EFF will fight Google Chrome Manifest v3 which kills extensions that reliably block ads

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:20:02 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has confirmed it is fighting Google Chrome Manifest v3 which effectively cripples all popular ad-blocking extensions, but it could be a losing battle for the EFF Read more...

Anti-ad blocking firm, Admiral, deals potentially damaging blow to ad blockers

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:36:01 +0000

Admiral, an anti-ad blocking company, may have found a way to cripple ad blockers after it issued a DMCA takedown notice to a popular ad blocking filter list, which complied to avoid legal trouble. Read more...

VPN-based ad blockers banned from iOS App Store

Paul Hill — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:58:02 +0000

Apple has begun enforcing a rule from its Developer Guidelines which means that VPN-based ad blockers will no longer be tolerated on the platform. Apple says the rule is long-standing. Read more...