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Why did Free roll out an opt-out ad block? War with Google.

Jan 4, 2013 by LiamBoogar
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As the incident known as #Adgate rolled out yesterday afternoon, first noticed by PCInpact, it seemed that a new update to Internet Service Provider Free’s Freebox, which provides fixed line internet, tv, and telephone services (“Triple Play”) to households, had activated an opt-out ad block to all Freebox users. As...
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New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users

Jan 3, 2013 by LiamBoogar
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In a recent update to its land-line Internet box FreeBox, Free has activated by default an option in its settings to block ads on any device connected to the internet via the Box. Originally reported by FreeNews (and picked up by Numerama), it seems that people are generally in the...
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How Xavier Niel got 42K Twitter Followers in 4 Tweets and Shook-up the French Mobile Market

Jan 12, 2012 by Roxanne Varza
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Behold Xavier Niel, the man who may very well be on his way to achieving Steve Jobs-status in France. It would be a first for the country that has traditionally celebrated the bureaucratic public sector to private enterprise. But Xavier, who is a college dropout and ranked amongst the richest...

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    May 13, 2013
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    City of Paris launches Moov’In in the City open data competition with info from Vélib’
    May 8, 2013

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