The very notion of browsing the modern internet without a pop-up blocker feels kind of like driving a car without a windshield: it's not strictly required, but doing so may be hazardous to your health ...

Users of the popular uBlock Origin extension on Google Chrome might need to make the switch to a new browser. Or maybe cave and subscribe to YouTube Premium ...

While the internet is no longer quite the pop-up-adopolis it once was, there are still plenty of websites that interrupt our experiences with abrupt ads and other clutter we’d rather not be a part of ...

Last year, Google made Chrome’s standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a “new set of standards for ads that show during video content,” ...

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Do you use Google’s Chrome browser on your PC or Mac to visit websites? And if so, do you have an ad blocker installed? If you’ve not been paying attention to the recent cries of pain from the makers ...

Plenty of companies and content creators work hard to balance the number of ads on their sites and videos so as not to force their fans or visitors to use an ad blocker, but others don't seem to care.

Since January, we’ve been following a set of major changes to extensions on Google Chrome, called Manifest V3, which includes a controversial rework of how ad blockers are expected to function. In ...

I switched over from Google Chrome to Microsoft's new Edge browser to give it a shot over a week ago, and I haven't moved back to Chrome yet. I'm truly enjoying the new Edge, largely because it looks ...

The Chrome browser will start automatically blocking ads that swallow a huge chunk of a phone’s resources, potentially giving Android users better battery life. Google says it has identified a ...