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...Take for example the “J Crew blocker” that has been increasingly popular in loan covenants....
...In the three decades of sobriety since, there have been so many therapists and therapies, antidepressants, beta blockers, acupuncture, ayurveda, jogging, reiki, kick-boxing, Pilates, screaming in my car...
...A new generation of treatments have seen impressive results at enabling the immune system to attack cancer, by disabling blockers inside the body....
...Vicky Ward is the author of ‘Kushner Inc: Greed. Ambition. Corruption....
...That used to be a deal blocker, as the regulator would have demanded trustees took a big cut. Even so, a deal with ICU might not amount to an outright sale....
...The tweet comes in response to news on Wednesday that Google was reviewing whether to introduce an ad-blocker in Chrome, which could raise questions about how the biggest digital advertising company exercises...
...Google will enable publishers to ask readers who use ad-blockers for micropayments, as part of a push to improve the quality of advertisements and combat the rise of ad blockers....
...About 26 per cent of internet users have ad-blockers on their computers, according to a survey conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, while about 10 per cent use ad-blockers on their phones....
...But an ad-blocker would extend this for the first time to certain types of adverts that appear on websites....
...Google is considering including an ad-blocker in its popular Chrome web browser. Depending on how it, it could tilt the field in favour of Google’s own advertising efforts....
...David Wehner, chief financial officer, said he expected advertising revenue growth to come down “meaningfully” in the second half, because of the ad limit and a bar on ad blockers that bolstered desktop...
...No wonder consumers are resorting to ad blockers, he said, with so many bad ads interrupting their feeds and slowing down page loads....
...This letter is the first shot fired in a war on all ad blockers,” it says....
...One in 10 desktop computer users in the US uses an ad blocker, according to a report this month from ComScore....
...They are an ad-blocker generation and yet they are highly addicted to Snap as the last bastion for a younger audience,” she says....
...The brake is meant to protect users and ensure that the app is not so packed with ads that they turn to ad blockers or a rival such as Snapchat....
...However, online advertising is still murky territory for many advertisers, mired by concerns about ad-blockers, fraud and questions of how to measure viewership....
...A long-anticipated flow of advertising dollars from TV to digital sites has not materialised, while fraud and ad blockers have weighed on online growth prospects....
...The company found that 42 per cent of the 2.1m visitors who were asked to disable their ad blockers did so....
...ad bookings expected to rise 5 per cent this year, they argue TV is a safer place for brands than a “Wild West” of online advertising, amid concerns about viewer measurement, ad placement, fraud and ad-blockers...
...“It doesn’t speak well of digital advertising that people are installing blockers to avoid seeing it.” However, he still expects online advertising to grow — at television’s expense....
...“Ad blockers come with an important asterisk: while they do benefit a ton of people in major ways, they also hurt some, including many who don’t deserve the hit.”...
...The only way to beat the blockers, though, is to kill demand. Avoiding intrusive ads and slow page load times should be the priority....
...This year Nasa will launch a mission to visit asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth, with the explicit aim of “helping us learn how to mine asteroids”....
...CME Group, the exchange group, said that the percentage of self-trades was less than 0.2 per cent of its total volume, while Intercontinental Exchange — which mandated self-trading blockers for proprietary...
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