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Culture secretary John Whittingdale says Adblocking companies are acting as a ‘contemporary-day protection racket’. Speaking at the Oxford Media conference on Wednesday, the culture secretary says the fast-growing exhaust of software that blocks advertising presents an existential threat to the newspaper and music industries. He vows to start discussions in the coming weeks to do something about the problemContinue reading...

Source: theguardian.com