Adblocking

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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