Batu69 Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Avira announced today that it has integrated adblocking functionality into the company's browser extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The decision to integrate an adblocker into company products came as a result of a study that Avira ran back in February 2017. One of the takeaways of the study was that about a quarter of all hits could be tracked to the domains of five advertising networks. What this meant was that about 25% of all attacks originated from advertisement. Avira ran the study on a sample group of 11.5 million unique active devices during February 2017. A total of 3.67 million detections were recorded by Avira URL Cloud in that time period; 2.4 million of those were malware related, and 817000 phishing related. Of these 3.67 million detections, 894000 were traced back to five advertising networks. Avira names the advertising networks in question on the official company blog and mentions that the actual number of hits that can be traced back to advertising companies is larger as smaller advertising networks were not factored in. Avira integrated an adblocker, courtesy of AdGuard, into company products as a response to the analysis of the studay. With more than 24% of attacks traced back to advertising, Avira hopes that it will have a big impact on customer safety on the Internet. The company products in question, Avira Safe Shopping for Google Chrome and Avira Browser Safety for Mozilla Firefox and Opera, blocked malicious ads in previous versions already. The update introduces full ad blocking to the products to eliminate advertisement as an attack vector. Updates for both browser extensions are already available. Existing users may receive automatic updates that incorporate the new adblocking functionality. New users may download the extensions directly from Avira. The integrated adblocker comes with options to turn it off on select websites. Click on the icon in the browser's address bar to get started. It highlights the site's safety status, and the number of trackers and advertisements that were blocked on the page. You can toggle the "block on this website" slider to disable adblocking on the site in question. The option to show "useful ads" in search results is enabled however. You may want to turn this off as well with a click on Settings and toggling the option. Closing Words Advertisement on the Internet is something that more and more Internet users don't like, and rightfully so. There is tracking, the fact that even the largest advertising networks may serve malicious ads, and obnoxious ads on top of all that. If advertising companies don't get their acts together soon, and do something about all three of these issues, there is little hope that a sole focus on advertisement is a viable business model going forward. It is clear that adblocking is on the rise. Google plans to integrate an adblocker in Chrome in the future that blocks all ads on sites with "annoying ads". While Google may be in the position to do something about it, considering that it is a major advertisement company and has a firm grip on the browser market, it remains to be seen if it can pursuade users and publishers. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.lemane Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 well that suck coz thats how apps dies these day or get bloated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Well it's not a bad thing Kaspersky had a adblocker built in for years and if they block ads system wide browsers like Google can't stop these programs even if they ban these addons ,but Avira has so many false positives as it is you have too be a expert at figuring out what is real and not real or just never use cracks and things , I went down this road with Avast before and it just wasn't worth the time haveing to exculde this and that and having to disable the program just too use a keygen or patch. False Positives are just as bad as a program that Misses malware and Virus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedative Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Google wont bloch ads, cause if his banning em, what will be with the google ads? XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 fwiw Windows 10 has AdGuard app in its Store.. free for Edge browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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