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Online advertising blockers and ad networks

Online advertising funds a large part of the free web, but it also raises questions about privacy and user experience. Our articles present the best ad blockers, including Pihole and AdGuard Home for filtering ads across your whole network, along with more radical tools such as AdNauseam. We also analyse broader data, from the share of internet users equipped with a blocker in France to the proportion of web traffic now generated by bots. Find our other analyses of online advertising on the Assistouest blog.

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AdNauseam: the extension that clicks ads to obfuscate advertising data

Online advertising has moved far beyond flashing banners. Advertising systems now build profiles from browsing behaviour and try to predict interests before we articulate them. Traditional blockers can hide the ad, but they do not always challenge the data collection behind it. AdNauseam takes a different approach: it blocks visible ads while automatically clicking them … <a href="https://assistouest.fr/en/blog/web-en/adnauseam-the-extension-that-clicks-ads-to-obfuscate-advertising-data/">Continued</a>

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The best free ad blockers to block ads on the internet

Opening a news page now often means weaving between several pop-ups, an autoplaying video and banners hiding half of the text. A ten-minute YouTube video can contain several ad breaks that cannot be skipped. Browsing has become tiring, heavy and aggressive. To clean up your screen without spending a cent, an ad-blocking extension is the … <a href="https://assistouest.fr/en/blog/web-en/best-free-ad-blockers-to-block-ads-on-the-internet/">Continued</a>

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