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adblocking

adblocking noun: the use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage.

Noun

adblocking (uncountable)

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

Origin of adblocking

From ad + blocking.

Questions about adblocking

What does adblocking mean?
Adblocking means the use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage.
What part of speech is adblocking?
Adblocking is a noun.

Words near adblocking in the dictionary

  1. adbasal
  2. Adbaston
  3. adblock
  4. adblocker
  5. adblockers
  6. adblocking
  7. adblocks
  8. adboard
  9. adboards
  10. adbot
  11. adbots

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