ad-blocker

Even though Focus blocks many ads as a side effect of blocking trackers, however, it's not an ad-blocker.

"And I've got ad-blocker on my computer so I'm destroying Google's business model and bringing them down from within."

I've been using Camino for two weeks and loving it, especially the built-in ad-blocker and Flash-blocker.

The front of the television also features a 'curtain mode' which pixilates the picture behind to create an abstract, screen effect; a rather sophisticated ad-blocker '

I use K9, which is a parental control application, to block certain pages within websites, and I use an ad-blocker, not to block adverts, but to block the comment sections of many sites.

InPrivateBlocking isn't purely an ad-blocker by design, but publishers are still worried, said Mike Zaneis, vice president of public policy for the Internet Advertising Bureau, which represents Web publishers.

The D.E.A.L method, it says, encourages a publisher to detect a blocker; explain the value of advertising for the publisher to the reader; ask the reader to either turn off their ad-blocker or pay for the content, and then lift the restricted access if the reader complies.

However, there are sites - including Forbes and Der Spiegel - that won't let you on without disabling your ad-blocker - after all, their services are funded through advertising.