Chrome will start auto-blocking the web’s most annoying ads in February
Dec19
Google is going to make your web browsing experience a lot less annoying soon. The company today revealed it will stop showing ads in Chrome that don’t meet certain standards for quality starting February 15. Google had announced its intention to do so back June, but this is the first time it’s provided a concrete date. Those quality standards are set by the Coalition for Better Ads – which Google is a part of – and they prohibit all sort of annoying ads. On desktop, those include pop-up ads, auto-playing videos with sounds, prestitials with countdowns, large sticky ads, and…
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