Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack Amazon affiliate links, ...

Today, All About Cookies announced the winners of its 2026 Editors' Choice Ad Blockers Awards, recognizing the best ad-blocking tools for protecting user privacy, reducing intrusive advertising, and ...

YouTube's war with ad blockers is far from over, and it's focusing on tools that enable ad-free viewing on mobile this time. The Google-owned video platform has ...

If you go down to YouTube today you're in for a big surprise – or at least, you are if you're using an ad blocker. What began as a test of anti-blocking measures has now become an official "global ...

I block ads (despite the hypocrisy) and you probably do too if you’re tech-literate enough to read PCWorld on the regular. So maybe you’re familiar with the minor drama between Google Chrome and the ...

I'll be upfront here -- sites like Pocket-lint depend on ad revenue, so if you want technology news to continue, it's important that you allow ads on the sites that you enjoy. But I also acknowledge ...

Blocking ads on Android has become an important security measure. Here's how I do it using this nifty Android app.

Whether or not Ghostery is an ad blocker depends on how you define “ad blocker.” Also depends on who you ask. It’s an awkward question for a company that wears two seemingly different hats in the ...

Q: On a few websites, I receive a message that reads, “disable ad blocker to continue.” (Foxnews.com is one site, for example.) This happens with Firefox, Chrome and Edge browsers. I searched program ...

Originally, Ad-Shield Co-Founder and CEO Joon Yu intended to build software to block ads, not for ad block recovery. But a chance interaction with the owner of a popular Korean gaming website that was ...

LAKE TAHOE, CA -- During a panel on ad blocking at MediaPost’s Programmatic Insider Summit here, participants were divided on what a post-ad blocking ad experience looks like. “We see ad blocking as a ...

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