#ad-blocking

#ad-blocking

Ad blocking is in a weird place. Google, the company that makes more money from advertising than any other on Earth, is actively working to make ad blockers worse on Chrome while it also makes it harder to block ads on YouTube. Basically, it's a good time to not use Chrome. So it's nice that Apple users have another choice: Safari. And, as luck would have it, Safari has an extremely efficient API for ad blocking built right in.

I thought smart TVs would make my life easier. What I got instead was endless frustration. My four Roku TCL Smart TVs crawled through menus, took forever to load apps, and bombarded me with ads at every turn. I was thinking about replacing them when I tried something different: blocking ads through my router. This simple change made my TVs run faster than they had since the day I bought them.

Privacy Badger is already used by millions to fight online surveillance and take back control of their data. Why Should Organizations Install Privacy Badger on Managed Devices? Protect People from Online Surveillance Most websites contain hidden trackers that let advertisers, data brokers, and Big Tech companies monitor people's browsing activity. This surveillance has serious consequences : it fuels scams , government spying , predatory advertising , and surveillance pricing .

The ruling says that the appeals court erred when it determined that the use of ad blocking software does not infringe on a copyright holder's exclusive right to modify a computer program.