YouTube Vanced, a modified app that stripped ads and sponsored content from videos, is shutting down due to legal reasons. The development team is on the Discord server, Telegram chat, and SubReddit.
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Opera has now bundled a new anti-mining feature into its ad-blocker which will stop websites from using your computer to mine cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin without your knowledge.
As part of its promise to fix online advertisements earlier this year, Google has now given us a date for when its popular browser will start automatically blocking ads that do not meet its standards.
From HP hype and HBO hacking, to Surface Plus, Google's ad-blocker, Flash back, Groove goodies, LastPass pricing, and OnePlus 5 minus 4.5.7, it's our handy roundup of the week's top tech news.
After details emerged in April of Google's plans to integrate an ad-blocker into Chrome, the browser's latest Canary build includes a setting to "block ads from sites that tend to show intrusive ads".
Chrome's ad-blocker will reportedly be enabled by default on desktop and mobile, targeting "unacceptable ads". It would make Google the world's largest online ad provider, and its biggest ad-blocker.
Some users reported seeing ads from Opera's partners in its new Mini browser, even with the new ad-blocker switched on. Opera has told Neowin that this was an accident, which has now been corrected.
Three has announced that it will conduct a 24-hour trial of opt-in ad-blocking on its network one a day during the week commencing June 13. The move has drawn criticism from online ad proponents.
