First British Newspaper Will Block Adblock Users

City AM is the first British newspaper who has decided to block users from a AdBlocker. According to the paper's journalists paid through advertising and now runs this risk by using adblockers, so ads no longer appear.

The blockade occurs when visitors want to read with a AdBlocker full articles. This not only concerns specific adblockers like AdBlock Plus, but also programs like Ghostery, Disconnect and Do Not Track Me that protect users from tracking on the web. In addition, the blockade is aimed only at Firefox users who use such software.

Opposite the Guardian explains director Martin Ashplant which uses about 8% of the 1.2 million visitors and that Firefox has installed 20% of this group adblockers. It is primarily a test, with other browsers and for example, tablets, and smartphones are excluded. "We want to see what the impact is and how many people choose to disable the adblockers" said Ashplant. Recently decided to Germany's Bild adblock users block.

Expert: Trackers Create Websites Painfully Slow

Trackers for ads and analyzing visitors are not only a privacy issue, they make websites also painfully slow which makes it sometimes seems that the time of the dial is back. This enables security expert Sean Sullivan of the Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure.

As an example, Sullivan, the American site of Ikea, when nine different trackers rotate, according to data from Ghostery. In this case were authorized third party cookies. Sullivan then went to the Finnish website of Ikea, but did not allow cookies from third parties. In this case there were 11 trackers ago. In the case of third-party cookies had been granted, were charged a total of 49 trackers.

"If the trackers are allowed to place their cookies, they often charge more resources and slows down the browsing," Sullivan noted. "It is 2015, but many websites load as if it was 1999". The expert also advises to block third-party cookies in your browser. "The earlier trackers are disabled better Internet experience."

Ghostery Privacy Browser Works With Black Phone

The creators of the popular privacy plugin Ghostery a partnership entered into with the makers of the Black Phone, secure smartphone. Recently launched Silent Circle, the company behind the Black Phone, the Silent Store. Through this store Black Phone users can download all kinds of apps that are approved by Silent Circle in the area of privacy and security.

One of the apps that recently through the store offered the Ghostery Privacy Browser. This is a full-fledged mobile browser with the functionality of the Ghostery browser plug-in on the desktop. The browser displays a list of trackers on websites. New trackers are also blocked by default and it is possible to set up a whitelist of popular websites, which should provide for better performance.

The Ghostery Privacy Browser is free to use. However, the developers ask users if they want in return enable the Ghost Rank-feature. In this way information is shared about the trackers that users encounter. The information collected would be anonymous, so it can not be used to track users. The data are then on websites, advertising companies and audit firms offered. For this Ghostery get paid again. However, the option is disabled by default.

EDRi Facebook Users Advises AdBlocker

European civil rights organization EDRi has advised Facebook users because of the new privacy policy on the social networking site to Adblock Plus or Ghostery use. These are two browser extensions that Internet users can protect themselves against online tracking.

The new privacy policy, Facebook users collect information from all over the internet and the website and exchanging information with other components such as Instagram. Facebook gives users should have the ability to stop the tracking, but the suggested method is as EDRi very cumbersome and also not the only way.

There is a much simpler option, according to the civil rights organization: installing Adblock Plus or Ghostery. Both plug-ins block not only trackers, but also advertisements. Some websites block therefore users Adblock Plus or give erroneous warnings . According to some experts can ad blocking major consequences have for websites.