
While ad blocking is most common among video game and technology (30-50 percent) sites, the usage of adblockers on other sites such as business news, entertainment, and sports news is also on the rise, according to PageFair. To this end, they have adopted all kinds of methods, from introducing paywalls to limiting content on the site, to fully blocking users of adblockers.Īd blocking is experiencing a popularity explosion and becoming a tricky, universal problem across the global publishing industry. Publishers and ad-dependent websites have attempted to fight back against the growing adoption of ad-blockers. Ad Blocking has existed for the past 15 years, having first become popular on Firefox and then becoming more popular on other systems and browsers such as Googles’ Chrome and Kali Linux.ĭesperate times call for desperate measures.

It allows the user to disable the ad blocker on websites by whitelisting them, which is a list of sites that you want ads to run on. Ad blocking, one of the fastest growing phenomena in internet usage, is a type of software that removes or alters advertising content on a web page, most commonly in the form of browser extensions.
