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    Google Chrome launches default ad-blocker

    Source: BBC News:
    February 15, 2018 at 11:35
    Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads being shown to users.

    Google announced the move to curtail full-page and auto-playing video ads, among others, last year.

    The choice of which ads to block will be determined by the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA) - made up of companies including Google and Facebook.

    Sites will have 30 days to remove disruptive ads before blocking begins.

    A survey of 40,000 US and European web users found that the most intrusive ads were full-page ads that hide the content of a web page and flashing animated ads, according to a blog by Chris Bentzel at Google.

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