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The war brewing against web advertisement blockers
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Mar 8, 2016
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The war brewing against web advertisement blockers
The growing conflict between web advertisement blockers and the sites that make money through those ads. New York Times' Kate Murphy joined the show to discuss.
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The growing conflict between web advertisement blockers and the sites that make money through those ads. New York Times' Kate Murphy joined the show to discuss.

Pop-up advertisements, videos that play automatically, ads that seem to follow you on the web page...let's be honest: online ads can be REALLY annoying.

Ad blockers have become a popular way to get around them, but of course, ads are how many websites make money.

So, now there's a war between the people that are using ad blockers and the sites that are losing money.

Kate Murphy wrote about this topic for the New York Times. She joined the show to discuss.