{"id":160218,"date":"2016-04-01T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160218"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T06:31:45","slug":"microsoft-edge-not-getting-a-native-ad-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160218-microsoft-edge-not-getting-a-native-ad-blocker.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge not getting a native ad blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has denied reports that it plans to build a native ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-plans-to-build-ad-blocker-into-its-microsoft-edge-browser\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ZDNet reported<\/strong><\/a> that adding ad-blocking was currently the fourth-highest priority for the Microsoft Edge development team.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft responded to the report, saying that a presentation\u00a0slide which ZDNet used for its\u00a0report was misleading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft is not building a native ad blocker with Microsoft Edge. What you saw is a reference to the work we&#8217;re already doing in bringing extensions to Microsoft Edge,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Windows news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/159003-the-windows-phones-that-can-get-windows-10-mobile.html\"><strong>The Windows Phones that can get Windows 10 Mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/156671-microsoft-windows-astoria-bridge-for-android-is-dead.html\"><strong>Microsoft Windows Astoria bridge for Android is dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/153395-the-greatest-windows-of-all-time.html\"><strong>The Greatest Windows of all Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said it has no plans to build a native ad blocker into Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,30102],"class_list":["post-160218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-edge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160222,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160218\/revisions\/160222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}