No one likes ads — pop-up or otherwise — intruding on their online experience of reading or video viewing, but ads are everywhere on the internet. One of the best ways to shield yourself from them is ...

Prepare to have your mind blown: This weekend, the creator of the popular AdBlock software—which kills the ads you’d normally see while trawling the Web—launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for ads ...

A few months back I postulated that Adblock Plus and other ad blocking software could act as protection against malware because they kept embedded malware in web pages from ever loading in your ...

About 15% to 30% of website traffic is from people with ad-blocking software, online ad firm Blockthrough reports. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

YouTube, in its crackdown on ad blockers, has been caught running advertisements promoting ad blocker software. This contradictory move has left users scratching their heads and raises concerns about ...

An exploit has been uncovered in the filter systems of Adblock, Adblock Plus, and uBlock which may permit attackers to remotely inject arbitrary code into web pages. Security researcher Armin ...

YouTube has been at war with ad blocker extensions since they came into popularity, and now the company behind the largest video platform in the world has moved to implement what is easily the most ...