
Only move to the next step if the problem is still happening: Perform each step in order, restarting Chrome after each. Such sites show up higher in mobile searches.Is something strange other than unblocked ads happening in Chrome? Some basic troubleshooting can help you solve the problem, or at least eliminate the most obvious causes to make finding an eventual answer easier. And it used its sway as the dominant search engine to push companies to make their sites mobile-friendly. It launched a way for websites to load faster on phones. To protect its ad business, Google has tried to improve user experiences in other ways. It'll take a 10 per cent cut of those payments. Google would work with websites to set up messages telling users to disable their blockers for the site or pay for a version of it with no ads. , for example, won't let you read stories without disabling your ad blocker or logging in with Facebook or Google accounts, so the site can track you. Some individual websites have come up with their own countermeasures.

The company is also starting a program that could help publishers deal with users who have downloaded popular ad blockers. But in the long term, he says, cracking down on irritating ads should make the internet experience better, encouraging people to visit sites and click on links.

"I'm sure there are some publishers who will get hurt," said Brian Wieser, an ad analyst with Pivotal Research Group. It's a "small number of websites that are disproportionately responsible for annoying user experiences," Google spokeswoman Suzanne Blackburn said. Google says that even ads it sells will be blocked on websites that don't get rid of annoying types of ads.īut there might not be vast changes online triggered by the popular browser's efforts. It'll work on both the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome. Google says the feature will be turned on by default, and users can turn it off.
