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Google Confirms Chrome Ad Blocker in Latest Blog Post
News // June 02, 2017

Google is joining the fight against harmful and intrusive website ads. The tech giant confirmed in a recent blog post that it will build and launch an ad blocker for the Chrome browser. It’s ironic for a company that strongly relies on ad revenue to release...

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Apple’s ‘Web Eraser’ Sparks Concerns Among UK Newspapers

May 12, 2024
British newspapers have voiced concerns about Apple’s new ad-blocking tool. The news organizations argue that this so-called “web-eraser” threatens the financial stability of the journalism world, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 12), citing a letter from the papers to Apple.  The “web eraser” is part of the artificial intelligence (AI) privacy feature in Apple’s […]