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City AM becomes the first UK publisher to ban ad blocker users

on Oct 20, 2015 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

City AM has become the first media outlet in the UK to stop people using ad blockers from viewing content on its website.

The financial publication has launched a new offence against ad blocking software that will blur out the text in its articles if a user is detected to be using the browser extensions.

It marks the first time that a UK publication has taken such measures against the use of the software and follows on from similar measures undertaken by a number of leading US media publications.

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Source: The Drum