Author: Benjamin Fonzé

  • Facebook cashed in with $709m from AdBlock users, what are you doing about it?

    In Q3 2016, Facebook took a stand against Ad Blockers, and implemented an AdBlock circumvention system that allows them to show advertising to AdBlock users. In their last quarterly report (Q2 2017), Facebook mentioned : “Desktop ad revenue grew 17% despite an ongoing decline in desktop usage. Note that our Q2 desktop ad revenue benefitted from our efforts to limit the impact of ad blocking technologies.” Eyeo, the company behind... Read More

  • Google Chrome might integrate Ad Blocking feature

    Last week, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch and various other news sites have been reporting that Google might be integrating a new ad blocking feature into its Chrome browser. Google has still not commented on these rumours. Here is what we know so far... Google is a member of the Coalition for Better Ads which last month released its guidelines entitled 'Initial Better Ads Standards: Least preferred ad experiences for desktop... Read More