It looks like Google Chrome really wants you to look at advertisements. In a quote post on X posted by Raymond Hill, the developer who brought us the free ad blocker Chrome extension uBlock Origin, it ...

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The fake Adblock Plus Chrome extension attracted over 37,000 users. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

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 ...

Online advertising is broken. Pop-ups cover half your screen and won't go away and autoplay videos blare marketing jingles, driving us to install ad blockers, cutting into publishers' revenue. With no ...

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 ...

Popular ad-blocking browser extension AdBlock has added a new feature that will cache popular JavaScript libraries locally on the users' computers. The feature is currently available only via the ...

Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, raised concerns on Tuesday via the Chromium bug tracker that upcoming changes to certain Chrome APIs would mean his extensions can "no longer ...

Earlier this year, Google announced plans to implement an in-browser ad blocker within Chrome. Those plans were revealed back in June, and at the time, Google said that the ad blocker it was working ...

Over the years, Google Chrome has changed in many ways, some good, some not so much. Google is proposing a new change to Chrome that arguably falls into the latter category as it will adversely affect ...

eyeo, the company behind the popular browser-based ad block product Adblock Plus, is no stranger to controversy. Which is just as well given its new “passion project”: A browser add-on that labels ...

Comet browser has its own ad blocker powered by Adblock Rust, the open-source engine developed by Brave, which keeps ads and ...