Adblocking
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage uncountable
"Peace isn’t his first entry into adblocking: a side-effect of Instapaper, the first of a class of apps which download content to read off-line, was stripping the adverts from saved content, in order to make them cleaner and easier to read."
Example
More examples"Peace isn’t his first entry into adblocking: a side-effect of Instapaper, the first of a class of apps which download content to read off-line, was stripping the adverts from saved content, in order to make them cleaner and easier to read."
Etymology
From ad + blocking.
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