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Ad tech company CEO claims ad blockers are "breaking the Internet", outs himself as ad-blocker user

Accepted submission by Whoever at 2016-04-22 02:28:33
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Whoever [soylentnews.org] writes:

London, UK based ad technology company Oriel has published a claim that ad blockers break web applications in ways other than merely not displaying ads. They show examples such as airline sites that will not allow check-in because of the effects of an ad blocker. [telegraph.co.uk] The original report is here [oriel.io]. The CEO of Oriel is quoted saying that he discovered this accidentally when attempting to check into a flight, which shows that he routinely uses an ad-blocker, and raises the question: why would the CEO of an ad technology company use an ad blocker?

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