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  • What to Do When YouTube Warns You About Your Ad Blocker

    One of the internet’s simple pleasures is watching YouTube with an ad blocker. You can watch as many videos as you want without constant interruptions from obnoxiously, occasionally unskippable commercials. But ads are how YouTube makes its money, so they’re not too happy when people use ad blockers to get avoid them.

  • More children are not going to school, ombudsman warns

    More children are not going to school because they have health or other issues, or because of their parents’ (religious) principles, putting their rights under pressure, children’s ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer has said in a letter to education minister Mariëlle Paul. Local council figures show some 7,389 children with a physical or mental impairment do not currently go to school compared to 5,077 children in 2014. That year a law obliging schools to provide fitting education to all children was...