adblocking

English

Etymology

ad +‎ blocking

Noun

adblocking (uncountable)

1. The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage
   • 2015 September 17, Alex Hern, “Adblockers shoot up iOS 9 app charts on day one”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Peace isn’t his first entry into adblocking: a side-effect of Instapaper, the first of a class of apps which download content to read off-line, was stripping the adverts from saved content, in order to make them cleaner and easier to read.

Anagrams

• blockading