Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking | Ars Technica: "The Google ad-blocker will block all advertising on sites that have a certain number of "unacceptable ads," according to The Wall Street Journal. That includes ads that have pop-ups, auto-playing video, and "prestitial" count-down ads that delay the display of content."

Possibly falling into the don't bite the hand that feeds you category, I think it's high time that the browser b*tch-slapped the JavaScript "programmers" who should never have been given a programming language to play with to begin with.

Labels: Adobe Flash, amazon vs. google vs. apple

Apple reportedly working on a rival to Amazon's Echo: "More interestingly, however, Apple is also apparently working on a smart Bluetooth speaker not unlike Amazon's Echo or Google Home."

I don't find this interesting at all. I guess when Steve Jobs died, so did "Focus is saying no to 1000 good ideas".

Labels: amazon vs. google vs. apple