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AdBlock Found Some Ads It Actually Liked, and Ran Them, for Amnesty International

Preaching an anti-censorship message

By Tim Nudd

March 16, 2016

AdBlock users were probably pretty surprised on Saturday to see actual ads appear—instead of the blank spaces they're used to—in the banner slots on webpages. That's because AdBlock found an ad campaign whose ideology it could get behind.

Tim Nudd
@nudd Tim Nudd is a former creative editor of Adweek.
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