adblocking

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noun

The use of an adblocker to remove advertising from the display of a webpage

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Meanings

nounadblocking (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

From ad + blocking.

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Cite this entry
APA

adblocking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adblocking

MLA

“adblocking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adblocking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adblocking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adblocking.

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