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Posts published by “Dennis Stewart”

Blocking ad blocker blockers

In December, Forbes began requiring readers with ad-blocking extensions to disable them in order to view pages. Visitors were greeted with a message: “Thanks for coming to Forbes.

If I could block $1.5 billion in ads

This past weekend I was at a party for Super Bowl 50. A football game has four 15-minute quarters (and for the Super Bowl, a 30-minute halftime show).

Why I’m blocking your ads

PageFair and Adobe recently published a study that claimed “$21.8bn in advertising revenues will be lost in 2015 due to ad blocking.”

Backdoors in the spotlight

I was pleasantly surprised to see recent Stevens graduate Marques Brownlee in the Democratic debate on January 17. He, along with other prominent YouTubers, recorded questions for the debate. 

WCPR loses equipment in power outage

Power was shut off in Davis and Hayden Halls as part of a scheduled outage on the morning of Saturday, October 31.