Chrome v142 has removed the flags that kept Manifest v2 extensions like uBlock Origin alive. Here's what to do to re-enable ...

Google, the internet's biggest advertising company, may be building an ad blocker. The search giant plans to roll out a feature in the next mobile version of its Chrome browser that would filter out ...

Say the words "ad blocker" to an advertiser or publisher and you can guarantee they will cringe. When Google announced its new built-in ad blocker for Chrome last year, it was no exception. The ...

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 ...

Google’s built-in ad blocker for Chrome finally launched in browser versions on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Google’s own Chrome OS. It is available on mobile as well. The adblocker was announced in ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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.

While ads essentially fund the internet as we know it today, sometimes they can create some of the worst experiences that the web has to offer. Google is working on a way for Chrome to automatically ...

YouTube may have significantly intensified its ad blocker war, which is leading to many users reporting that the platform is ...