Ad blocking (English Wikipedia)

Australian Signals Directorate. "Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents – Mitigation Details". Commonwealth of Australia. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019. Block Internet advertisements using web browser software (and web content filtering in the gateway), due to the prevalent threat of adversaries using malicious advertising (malvertising) to compromise the integrity of legitimate websites to compromise visitors to such websites. Some organisations might choose to support selected websites that rely on advertising for revenue by enabling just their ads and potentially risking compromise.

adguard.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"How to set up AdGuard DNS". adguard.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2019.

alternate-dns.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Alternate DNS – Ad Blocking DNS Server". alternate-dns.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.

amazon.com (Global: 159^th place; English: 105^th place)

aws.amazon.com

"Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)". Amazon Web Services. Amazon.com. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

androidguys.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Noboa, Gerson (6 March 2019). "Blokada review: Thousands of ad blocking and filtering requests per day". androidguys.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
Raja (19 September 2017). "How to block system-wide ads on Android without root". androidguys.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

apple.com (Global: 70^th place; English: 55^th place)

apps.apple.com

"Wipr". App Store. Archived from the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Silverstein, Barry (2001). Internet Marketing for Information Technology Companies: Proven Online Techniques to Increase Sales and Profits for Hardware, Software and Networking Companies. Maximum Press. p. 130. ISBN 1885068670. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

arstechnica.com (Global: 473^rd place; English: 338^th place)

Fisher, Ken (6 March 2010). "Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; English: 31^st place)

Kontaxis, Georgios; Chew, Monica (2015). "Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance" (PDF). IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. arXiv:1506.04104. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

asd.gov.au (Global: low place; English: low place)

blueprint.asd.gov.au

"Microsoft Edge hardening". ASD's Blueprint for Secure Cloud. Australian Signals Directorate. Retrieved 3 September 2026. The ASD recommends blocking browsers from processing web advertisements as part of the Essential Eight.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

"Facebook starts auto-play video ads". BBC News. 17 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.

betterads.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Members". Coalition for Better Ads. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

blockadblock.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"About that claim that detecting Adblock may be illegal". 25 April 2016. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

blockerdns.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"blockerDNS – Get it Now!". blockerdns.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.

blog.google (Global: 4,904^th place; English: 4,208^th place)

Roy-Chowdhury, Rahul (13 February 2018). "The browser for a web worth protecting". Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

broadbandsavvy.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"37 Ways To Improve Internet Speed – How To Stop Buffering". Broadband Savvy. 16 July 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.

bromium.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

labs.bromium.com

Navaraj, McEnroe (21 February 2014). "The Wild Wild Web: YouTube ads serving malware". Bromium Labs. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

browserfy.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

"How to configure Brave to block pop-ups". Browserfy. 31 May 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.

businessinsider.com (Global: 201^st place; English: 139^th place)

O'Reilly, Lara. "The inventor of Adblock tells us he wrote the code as a 'procrastination project' at university — and he's never made money from it". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
O'Reilly, Lara (13 May 2015). "This ad blocking company has the potential to tear a hole right through the mobile web – and it has the support of carriers". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Edwards, Jim (9 July 2015). "I used the software that people are worrying will destroy the web – and now I think they might be right". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Niemeyer, Kenneth (15 October 2023). "YouTube is using pop-ups to tell people to stop using ad blockers, frustrating users". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 October 2023.

cheatsheet.com (Global: 4,071^st place; English: 2,691^st place)

Della Costa, Chloe (22 May 2017). "7 Tricks Advertisers Use to Manipulate You into Spending More Money". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Becker, Sam (21 May 2015). "Do You Know Who Spends All Day Thinking About Your Kids?". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

christianheilmann.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Web bloat isn't a knowledge problem". Christian Heilmann. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

chromium.org (Global: 9,404^th place; English: 9,224^th place)

blog.chromium.org

"Expanding user protections on the web". Chromium Blog. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Under the hood: How Chrome's ad filtering works". 14 February 2018. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

circleid.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Kuerbis, Brenden (21 May 2010). "The Extent of DNS Services Being Blocked in China". Circleid.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

cnet.com (Global: 447^th place; English: 345^th place)

Mihalcik, Carrie. "Google says Chrome isn't killing ad blockers". CNET. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.

columbia.edu (Global: 554^th place; English: 368^th place)

cs.columbia.edu

Pathak, Abhinav; Hu, Y. Charlie; Zhang, Ming. "Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof" (PDF). Microsoft. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

computerworld.com (Global: 3,446^th place; English: 2,279^th place)

Keizer, Gregg (24 July 2018). "The Brave browser basics – what it does, how it differs from rivals". Computerworld. Retrieved 23 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

consumerreports.org (Global: 6,864^th place; English: 4,243^rd place)

"Want to Protect Against Websites That Spy on You? Get an Ad Blocker". Consumer Reports. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2025.

cpbf.org.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

archive.cpbf.org.uk

CPBF. "Briefing on Product Placement". www.archive.cpbf.org.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2025.

cyber.gc.ca (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Protect your organization from malware - ITSAP.00.057". Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. August 2026. Retrieved 3 September 2026. Use an ad blocker to reduce risk from malicious ads or a tracker blocker and limit the collection of browsing activity information{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

cyber.gov.au (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Guidelines for system hardening". Australian Cyber Security Centre. Australian Cyber Security Centre. 3 September 2026. Retrieved 3 September 2026. Control: ISM-1485; Web browsers do not process web advertisements from the internet.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

deer-run.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Pomeranz, Hal (13 August 2013). "A Simple DNS-Based Approach for Blocking Web Advertising". Deer Run Associates. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

digiday.com (Global: low place; English: 6,319^th place)

Davies, Jessica (29 April 2016). "Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?". Digiday.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Geary, Emma (28 July 2015). "How Apple's embrace of ad blocking will change native advertising". Digiday. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Shiller, Benjamin; Ryan, Johnny (9 February 2018). "The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality". The RAND Journal of Economics. 49: 43–63. doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12218.

easylist.to (Global: low place; English: low place)

The EasyList authors (18 September 2022). MontzA (ed.). "EasyList". EasyList.to. Retrieved 18 September 2022.

econtentmag.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Charski, Mindy (14 March 2016). "Programmatic Advertising: The Tools, Tips, and Tricks of the Trade". Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

engadget.com (Global: 613^th place; English: 442^nd place)

Blue, Violet (8 January 2016). "You say advertising, I say block that malware". Engadget. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

entrepreneur.com (Global: 3,846^th place; English: 2,243^rd place)

Templeman, Mike (3 June 2014). "10 Marketing Tricks From the Pros". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

eyeo.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

help.eyeo.com

"How to write filters | Adblock Plus Help Center". 4 February 2021.

floppymoose.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"userContent.css". floppymoose.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2003. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; English: 54^th place)

O'Flaherty, Kate (18 October 2023). "YouTube's New Ad Blocker Crackdown—What You Need To Know". Forbes. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
"YouTube's Ad Blocker Ban Just Got Even Bigger". Forbes. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

fortune.com (Global: 647^th place; English: 421^st place)

Elmer-DeWitt, Philip (21 September 2015). "Look Who's Driving Adblock Growth". Fortune. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Meyer, David (15 February 2018). "Why Google's Ad-Blocking in Chrome Might Prove Awkward For the Company". Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

ft.com (Global: 193^rd place; English: 127^th place)

Bond, David (13 May 2017). "Guardian relies on readers' support to stave off crisis". Financial Times. Retrieved 22 December 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

gadgethacks.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

digiwonk.gadgethacks.com

"How to Use Ad Blockers to Stop Ads from Displaying in Your Web Browser". 23 April 2011.

geekinspector.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"AdTrap Whole Network Ad Blocking Appliance Review". Geek Inspector. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

getadtrap.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"AdTrap". Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

ghacks.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

Brinkman, Martin (17 September 2022). "How to block web fonts to improve privacy". Ghacks Technology News. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
"A look at AdGuard DNS – gHacks Tech News". ghacks.net. 31 December 2018. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

github.com (Global: 380^th place; English: 337^th place)

Hill, Raymond (25 August 2026), gorhill/uBlock, retrieved 25 August 2026, Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought.

gizmodo.com (Global: 763^rd place; English: 486^th place)

Jones, Rhett (12 August 2017). "A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It's Complicated". Gizmodo. Gizmodo Media Group. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

heise.de (Global: 905^th place; English: 3,454^th place)

Eikenberg, Ronald (26 February 2014). "YouTube angeblich als Virenschleuder missbraucht". heise.de (in German). Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

iabeurope.eu (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Ad Blocking Detection Guidance". IABEurope.eu. 7 June 2016. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

ic3.gov (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users". Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). 21 December 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

idlewords.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"The Website Obesity Crisis". Idle Words. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

ieee-security.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Kontaxis, Georgios; Chew, Monica (2015). "Tracking Protection in Firefox For Privacy and Performance" (PDF). IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. arXiv:1506.04104. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

incibe.es (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Herramientas gratuitas" (in Spanish). National Cybersecurity Institute. Retrieved 3 September 2026. ¿Cansado de la publicidad no deseada? ¿De que invadan tu privacidad? Es posible bloquearla para que no te aparezca cuando navegues por las distintas páginas webs que frecuentas.Tu experiencia de usuario mejorará notablemente. (approximate translation: "Tired of unwanted advertising? That they invade your privacy? It is possible to block it so that it does not appear when you browse the different websites you frequent. Your user experience will improve significantly.")

infoworld.com (Global: 5,156^th place; English: 3,760^th place)

Venezia, Paul (26 May 2015). "Code injection: A new low for ISPs". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 19 August 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
Kirk, Jeremy (23 August 2007). "Firefox ad-blocker extension causes angst". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

jacobsalmela.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Salmela, Jacob (16 June 2015). "Block Millions of Ads Network-wide with a Raspberry Pi-hole 2.0". Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

jucktion.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Manandhar, Niroj (2 September 2018). "3 ways to adblock Android smartphones and devices". The Jucktion. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

konqueror.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Konqueror browser features". Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

microsoft.com (Global: 263^rd place; English: 259^th place)

support.microsoft.com

"Use Do Not Track in Internet Explorer 11". Archived from the original on 1 May 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2019.,

mozilla.org (Global: 2,188^th place; English: 2,076^th place)

support.mozilla.org

"Upon startup multiple audio sources begin playing. I can't find the tab to kill them!". Support.mozilla.org. 10 August 2011. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop". support.mozilla.org. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
"Content blocking". support.mozilla.org. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

blog.mozilla.org

Veditz, Daniel (6 August 2015). "Firefox exploit found in the wild". Mozilla Security Blog. Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

ncsc.gov.ie (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Seasonal Cyber Awareness 2022-11-24" (PDF). National Cyber Security Centre. National Cyber Security Centre. 24 November 2022. p. 3. Use an ad blocker locally on your browser.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

networkperformancedaily.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Adblock: Adapt, or die". 5 September 2007. Archived from the original on 17 January 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

nordvpn.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Einorytė, Aurelija (14 January 2025). "What is ad blocker, and how does it work?". NordVPN. Retrieved 25 September 2025.

nsa.gov (Global: 7,332^nd place; English: 4,773^rd place)

"BLOCKING UNNECESSARY ADVERTISING WEB CONTENT" (PDF). National Security Agency. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Aisch, Gregor; Andrews, Wilson; Keller, Josh (1 October 2015). "The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Murphy, Kate (20 February 2016). "The Ad Blocking Wars". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

opensource.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Pearce, Joshua (24 April 2020). "What you need to know about open source ad blockers". Opensource.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

ox.ac.uk (Global: 541^st place; English: 356^th place)

blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk

Williams, James (16 October 2015). "Why It's OK to Block Ads". Practical Ethics. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

pcmag.com (Global: 1,442^nd place; English: 915^th place)

Eddy, Max (30 April 2022). "The Best Ad Blockers for 2022". PCMag. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
Mlot, Stephanie (1 February 2013). "Online Advertising More Likely to Spread Malware Than Porn". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

plausible.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

Saric, Marko (31 August 2021). "58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics". Plausible Analytics. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

portswigger.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

"uBlock, I exfiltrate: Exploiting ad blockers with CSS". 6 December 2021.

researchgate.net (Global: 96^th place; English: 89^th place)

Shiller, Benjamin; Ryan, Johnny (9 February 2018). "The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality". The RAND Journal of Economics. 49: 43–63. doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12218.
de Haan, Evert (2023). "The Drivers and Consequences of Ad Blocking: A Self-Filtering Mechanism That Increases Ad Effectiveness". Journal of Interactive Marketing (59) – via ResearchGate.

scientificamerican.com (Global: 1,110^th place; English: 817^th place)

Baraniuk, Chris (31 May 2018). "Where Will the Ad versus Ad Blocker Arms Race End?". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

sectheory.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Browser Power Consumption". SecTheory. 1 December 2008. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

semrush.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Chapin, Andrew (5 April 2016). "Stop Annoying People: How to Create Ads People Want to See". SemRush Blog. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Milligan, Amanda (24 October 2020). "What Is Dwell Time & Why Does It Matter for SEO". Semrush. Retrieved 29 March 2022.

sigcomm.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

conferences.sigcomm.org

Pujol, Enric; Hohlfeld, Oliver; Feldmann, Anja. "Annoyed Users: Ads and Ad-Block Usage in the Wild" (PDF). ACM SigComm Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

sjinsights.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

Johnson, Sheree (29 September 2014). "New Research Sheds Light on Daily Ad Exposures". SJ Insights, LLC. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

standard.co.uk (Global: 362^nd place; English: 200^th place)

Shah, Saqib (22 December 2022). "The FBI is advising people to use an ad blocker as part of an online scam warning". Evening Standard. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
Shah, Saqib (2 November 2023). "YouTube stops users with ad blockers from watching videos". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 October 2023.

statista.com (Global: 1,214^th place; English: 1,277^th place)

"Ad blocker usage in U.S." Statista. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.

support.google.com (Global: 2,836^th place; English: 2,952^nd place)

"Abusive experiences". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

techcrunch.com (Global: 317^th place; English: 224^th place)

Whittaker, Zack (22 December 2022). "Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker". TechCrunch. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

techdirt.com (Global: low place; English: 6,406^th place)

Masnick, Mike (14 August 2017). "How The DMCA's Digital Locks Provision Allowed A Company To Delete A URL From Adblock Lists". Techdirt. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

techlaco.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Jankovic, Alex (10 March 2022). "Blocking "Adblock" is Proving Disastrous (e.g. Forbes)". Techlaco. Retrieved 29 March 2022.

technologyreview.com (Global: 2,515^th place; English: 1,716^th place)

Simonite, Tom. "Are Ad Blockers Needed to Stay Safe Online?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

techradar.com (Global: 1,513^th place; English: 964^th place)

James, Rogerson (4 January 2021). "The best free Android apps of 2021". techradar.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
Fadilpašić, Sead (5 November 2024). "Best mobile proxies for 2025". TechRadar. Archived from the original on 20 August 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.

thedrum.com (Global: 8,360^th place; English: 4,596^th place)

Goodfellow, Jessica (18 April 2016). "Publishers snooping for ad blockers are breaking the law, claims privacy consultant". The Drum. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

thegooglecache.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Ad Blocking is Immoral". The Google Cache. 2 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Sweney, Mark (1 March 2016). "More than 9 million Britons now use adblockers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Sweney, Mark (20 April 2016). "Fears of adblocking 'epidemic' as report forecasts almost 15m UK users next year". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Hern, Alex (14 October 2013). "Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
Sweney, Mark (12 April 2016). "Guardian to consider preventing access to content if ad-blocking proliferates". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

theregister.com (Global: 2,921^st place; English: 1,825^th place)

Claburn, Thomas. "In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
Claburn, Thomas (26 October 2023). "Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection". The Register. Retrieved 15 November 2023.

theverge.com (Global: 208^th place; English: 158^th place)

Kastrenakes, Jacob (28 January 2020). "Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month". The Verge. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

ublockorigin.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker". uBlock Origin. Retrieved 4 October 2023.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Cox, Joseph (23 September 2021). "The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous". VICE. Retrieved 3 September 2026.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

"Facebook starts auto-play video ads". BBC News. 17 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
Elmer-DeWitt, Philip (21 September 2015). "Look Who's Driving Adblock Growth". Fortune. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Sweney, Mark (1 March 2016). "More than 9 million Britons now use adblockers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Sweney, Mark (20 April 2016). "Fears of adblocking 'epidemic' as report forecasts almost 15m UK users next year". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Ad blocker usage in U.S." Statista. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
Simonite, Tom. "Are Ad Blockers Needed to Stay Safe Online?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Abusive experiences". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Expanding user protections on the web". Chromium Blog. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
"Browser Power Consumption". SecTheory. 1 December 2008. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Pathak, Abhinav; Hu, Y. Charlie; Zhang, Ming. "Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof" (PDF). Microsoft. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Della Costa, Chloe (22 May 2017). "7 Tricks Advertisers Use to Manipulate You into Spending More Money". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Becker, Sam (21 May 2015). "Do You Know Who Spends All Day Thinking About Your Kids?". Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Templeman, Mike (3 June 2014). "10 Marketing Tricks From the Pros". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Charski, Mindy (14 March 2016). "Programmatic Advertising: The Tools, Tips, and Tricks of the Trade". Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Pujol, Enric; Hohlfeld, Oliver; Feldmann, Anja. "Annoyed Users: Ads and Ad-Block Usage in the Wild" (PDF). ACM SigComm Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Chapin, Andrew (5 April 2016). "Stop Annoying People: How to Create Ads People Want to See". SemRush Blog. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Mlot, Stephanie (1 February 2013). "Online Advertising More Likely to Spread Malware Than Porn". PCMAG. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Eikenberg, Ronald (26 February 2014). "YouTube angeblich als Virenschleuder missbraucht". heise.de (in German). Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Navaraj, McEnroe (21 February 2014). "The Wild Wild Web: YouTube ads serving malware". Bromium Labs. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Veditz, Daniel (6 August 2015). "Firefox exploit found in the wild". Mozilla Security Blog. Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
Blue, Violet (8 January 2016). "You say advertising, I say block that malware". Engadget. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
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