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Backtracking in the face of evidence Google has rolled back plans to ban rival ad-blocking extensions from its Chrome software after it was revealed that its claims that they were… Backtracking in the ...

The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand and block all the ways that advertisers were tracking them. Since then, ...

Folks online have accused YouTube of targeting AdBlock users with degraded performance, with reports of the desktop player freezing up, lagging while buffering, and hogging CPU usage. YouTube has ...

Suppliers of the best-known anti-tracking tools - Ghostery, Adblock Plus and TrackerBlock - all reported big jumps in usage in the second half of 2011.