Adblock Plus blocks ads according to that committee's standards, but has struggled to persuade publishers and other tech firms to follow suit. Meanwhile Adblock Plus' parent, Eyeo, set up and spun out a rival industry body called the Acceptable Ads Committee which has been considerably less successful. You might wonder why Google, which relies heavily on ads to make money, would delve into adblocking at all - but industry experts told Business Insider it's about maintaining control over the ecosystem. Chrome's filter determines which annoying ads to block according to standards set by the Coalition of Better Ads, a recently established independent body whose members comprise big publishers like News Corp, agency groups such as Omnicom, and tech players such as Google and Facebook. There's also adblocking politics at play. So if all the users of the most popular browser suddenly decide to switch to Google's in-built tool, Adblock Plus faces a significant decline in usage.
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Adblock Plus is mostly used by people who install its third-party plugin on their browsers. There are 2 billion Chrome browsers in active use between mobile and desktop, and it's by far the most popular web browser. Adblock Plus does allow some types of ad, however, like "static" ads that sit off to the side of an article.Īdblock Plus does have a vested interest here. Anything that pops up, "disrupts" the reader midway through an article, or expands over an article is not permitted. Chrome's new adblocking filter will allow full-page ads that you can immediately skipĪdblock Plus, by comparison, is much stricter about the ads it blocks.
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