Native or naive? The misguided strategy against ad blocking

In the Cannes Lions festivities last year, when Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer said native advertising is the solution to ad blocking, digital publishers around the world rejoiced. They had been looking for a solution for months. Finally, the 200 something millions of ad-blockers users could no longer hurt their ad revenue. And Marissa really meant what she said. Yahoo aggressively rolled …