First launched last year, Google’s own ad blocker built into the Chrome browser is supposed to punish websites that favor intrusive ads, and improve the internet in the process. Running an ad blocker ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several malicious Google Chrome extensions that hijack Amazon affiliate links, ...

Google is said to be developing an ad blocker for its Chrome web browser. Sounds weird, right? Google makes most of its money through advertising, so why would the company start blocking ads by ...

Experts uncovered malicious Chrome extensions that replace affiliate links, exfiltrate data, and steal ChatGPT authentication tokens from users.

A Chrome extension posing as an Amazon ad blocker was caught hijacking affiliate links in the background, redirecting ...

Google is reportedly preparing for an update to both their Chrome desktop and mobile browsers that will feature a free built-in ad blocker meant to clean up those pesky ads that, according to a report ...

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 ...

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.

Currently, Chrome's ad blocker is only active for Chrome users in the US, Canada, and Europe, after it was initially rolled out in an initial stage in February 2018. Chrome's built-in ad blocker isn't ...

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 ...

The ad blocker, available for now only on the Windows version of Canary, could reach mainstream browser users by mid-October. Google has added a built-in ad blocker to the roughest version of Chrome, ...

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,” ...