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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Web Roundup: Ad Blocking and Peeple

    The ad-block-alypse has arrived. Online ad-blocking technology has existed for years in your desktop browser, but ad-blocking on your phone is new—ad-blocking software is now baked in to the iPhone’s new operating system. And it has media organizations and content creators running scared.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 1, 2015 • 1 min read

    The ad-block-alypse has arrived. Online ad-blocking technology has existed for years in your desktop browser, but ad-blocking on your phone is new—ad-blocking software is now baked in to the iPhone’s new operating system. And it has media organizations and content creators running scared.

    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Women in the Workplace, Russell Brand Doc, and Bukowski's House
    1. 0:00Kevin McCarthy's Transition
    2. 8:18Women in the Workplace
    3. 16:34Web Roundup: Ad Blocking and PeepleYou’re reading this
    4. 26:08'Brand: A Second Coming'
    5. 42:09Bukowski's House
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Xeni Jardin

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Women in the Workplace, Russell Brand Doc, and Bukowski's House
    1. 0:00Kevin McCarthy's Transition
    2. 8:18Women in the Workplace
    3. 16:34Web Roundup: Ad Blocking and PeepleYou’re reading this
    4. 26:08'Brand: A Second Coming'
    5. 42:09Bukowski's House
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