A recent Financial Times article has confirmed that Microsoft and Amazon, as well as Google, have all been paying to be included in Adblock Plus’s default whitelist. The confirmation of a paid deal between these companies and Eyeo (the maker of Adblock Plus) to circumvent the software’s ad blocking just goes to show how these […]
Chinese Couple Sells their Babies to Support Gaming Habit According to a story emanating from the GamesInAsia site; a young couple in China took things way too far when they sold their two sons to child traffickers and used the proceeds to purchase powerups and other advanced features in online games. In a television interview […]
Do you utilize ad blocking software? What follows is my take on the possible consequences of this expanding practice and how it might all eventually impact on the web’s fundamental infrastructure. Agree or disagree? Either way, have your say via the comments. The internet is a wondrous thing, a veritable goldmine of free information and […]