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07-08-2017, 06:58 PM
These ad blockers replace digital ads with cats, art, and vintage advertising
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A host of niche ad blockers are helping web surfers trade an**ying ads for cats, art, and inspiration.
The tools are part of a burgeoning cottage industry of blocking software birthed by a popular frustration with disruptive digital ads in recent years.
But where most of their ilk simply scrub pop-ups and promos from your screen, a handful of developers have tried to set their services apart by taking it a step further: They want to turn the lemons of online ads into lemonade.
SEE ALSO: Facebook and Google are destroying bad online ads, which is great until they own the world (http://mashable.com/2017/06/18/facebook-google-duopoly-threat/)
These ad blockers replace aggressive web advertising with a more pleasant alternative, whether that be images of goofy cats, vintage billboards, fine art, inspirational memes — take your pick.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/08/ad-blockers-replacers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A host of niche ad blockers are helping web surfers trade an**ying ads for cats, art, and inspiration.
The tools are part of a burgeoning cottage industry of blocking software birthed by a popular frustration with disruptive digital ads in recent years.
But where most of their ilk simply scrub pop-ups and promos from your screen, a handful of developers have tried to set their services apart by taking it a step further: They want to turn the lemons of online ads into lemonade.
SEE ALSO: Facebook and Google are destroying bad online ads, which is great until they own the world (http://mashable.com/2017/06/18/facebook-google-duopoly-threat/)
These ad blockers replace aggressive web advertising with a more pleasant alternative, whether that be images of goofy cats, vintage billboards, fine art, inspirational memes — take your pick.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/08/ad-blockers-replacers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Ad Blockers (http://mashable.com/category/ad-blockers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Consumer Tech (http://mashable.com/category/consumer-tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Big Tech Companies (http://mashable.com/category/big-tech-companies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/6692/mash.to/rss&pos=atf&tag=ad&mtype=standard&type=rss&sz=300x250&c=1499524572 (http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/6692/mash.to/rss&pos=atf&tag=ad&mtype=standard&type=rss&sz=300x250&c=1499524572)
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