Google is due to release an in-built adblocker for its Chrome browser in February, which will stop users seeing the most irritating types of ads. Rival adblocker Adblock Plus has released research ...

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Be careful with those browser extensions. A phony one pretending to be from Adblock Plus recently managed to sneak into the Google Chrome Web Store and attract over 37,000 users. Ironically, the fake ...

Adblock Plus is one of the most popular extensions for Chrome with more than 10 million users and 150,000 glowing reviews. However, a spammer was recently able to infiltrate the Chrome web store with ...

A fake AdBlock Plus extension made its way to Chrome’s official Web Store and was downloaded 37,000 times by users across the globe. Google removed the listing after it was spotted by a security ...

Google Chrome: Adblock Plus has long been a great extension for toning down ad-infested sites, and the newest version can even block in-video ads so you don't need to ...

If you use Adblock Plus with Chrome and downloaded the extension pretty recently, you may want to check what you've installed. Apparently, a fake Adblock Plus extension made it through Google's ...

Here's a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus, which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than ...