The EU effectively makes network-level ad blocking illegal
As part of its newly released net neutrality guidelines, the European Union has established a clause that would ban national mobile and service providers from blocking ads across their networks. “ISPs should not block, slow down, alter, restrict, interfere with, degrade or discriminate advertising when providing an [internet access service],” the documentation says. (The guidelines still allow individual web users, of course, to download ad blocking software.)
Read more at Business Insider UK
…but Three is ignoring all that
The U.K.-based mobile provider seems to be moving ahead with its plan for network-wide ad blocking in 2017. ITPro is reporting that its up to the British telecom regulatory bodies how the EU’s guidance will be enforced, so there are some decidedly murky waters ahead for private companies such as Three.
Read more at ITPro
Brave Payments goes live
After months of build up and a fair bit of sideline commentary on its future, the Brave browser (developed by Brendan Eich) has launched its payment service. In lieu of serving ads on webpages, the browser now allows users to anonymously donate cash to their favourite sites with Brave taking a cut.
Read more at Tech Crunch
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