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adblocking en · NOUN

Etymology

From ad + blocking.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage
    • 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. 2015 September 17, Alex Hern, “Adblockers shoot up iOS 9 app charts on day one”, in The Guardian: