Adblock Radio

"Ads exploit the weaknesses of many defenseless souls" - Fall 2019 update

In the mediaAdblock Radio has received recent press and social media coverage: Hacker News (#1) and Reddit (r/technology)Vice / Motherboard – interview to explain why Adblock Radio is useful to

Community

Adblock Radio is a perceptual ad blocker

Adblock Radio belongs to the family of next-generation ad blockers, so called "perceptual" as they consider content in the same way humans do. Perceptual ad blockers are a recent area

Community

About becoming a maintainer

Have you noticed that in Adblock Radio player, there is a button to tell that the filter did not behave as expected? The ability to learn is one of the

Announcements

Past and future milestones for Adblock Radio

Adblock Radio, the first working ad filter for streaming radios and podcasts, has gone through milestones recently. The article that describes how the filter works got relayed on popular platforms

Technical

Ad blocking for TV

Radio and TV are both linear media, most often funded by ads. So it is interesting to see the current state of the art in TV ad skipping. Two of

Technical

Designing an audio adblock

tl;dr: Adblock Radio detects audio ads with machine-learning and Shazam-like techniques. The core engine is open source: use it in your radio product! You are welcome to join efforts

Technical

Ad blocking on the web

Advertising is one of the main business models on the Internet: it scales very well and enables websites to charge micro-transactions to their visitors without the fees that apply to

Pub

Consumer sensitivity to audio advertising measured by Pandora

Scientists from Stanford, Pandora and Netflix have analyzed the effects of ads on listeners. They have used a broad dataset from Pandora, representing the real behaviour of 35M users during

Market

Radio would be much better without ads

We should have the choice to have ads, or not to have them, and directly pay a subscription.

Manifesto

Getting rid of annoying ads on the radio

Radio advertising suffers from the so-called tragedy of the commons. This means that given a scarce resource, here being your attention span, advertisers will each have an individual incentive to

Media

Ils parlent d'Adblock Radio

Twitter @PierreCol GÉNIAL : AdBlockRadio, un bloqueur de publicité audio pour les radios écoutées via le web ! https://www.adblockradio.com/ @reesmarc "Avec Adblock Radio, écoutez la radio avec ou sans la pub." Via @PierreCol #adblock https://www.adblockradio.com/ @zenbrn "Adblock

Hardware

Prototyping a radio that blocks ads

Publishing a website to listen to the radio ad-free is good. Building a good old physical radio is even better. This article presents the conception of a radio prototype and provides some technical details. The reader who just wants to see the results can

UX

Listening to the radio: why user experience matters

One of the aims of Adblock Radio is to be as minimalistic and user-friendly as possible. I try to offer an interesting product with the least amount of knobs and arcane features. Finding the good tradeoff is a challenging task. Listening to the radio

Announcements

Introducing the blog for Adblock Radio

Welcome visitors, here is the little blog that will help you stay tuned with the latest news about Adblock Radio. Adblock Radio is a service that lets you listen to your favorite broadcasts while being able to choose if you do accept to hear