Online Publishers Worry as Ad Blocking Goes Mobile

Financial Times: For online publishers whose businesses rely on advertising revenues, the ad-blocking trend is worrying. Their fear has intensified in recent months as blocking technologies, once limited to desktop computers, have spread to mobile devices. According to a survey by Global Web Index, 37 percent of mobile users said they had blocked ads on their device in the last month. “The arrival of ad blocking on mobile has also been encouraging people to adopt this approach across all of their devices.”