Opera fired a broadside in the web content wars Thursday morning, becoming the first desktop Web browser with built-in ad blocking—and explicitly encouraging users to turn it on to improve their ...

YouTube's background play feature has stopped working on Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and other browsers.

Opera wants to help you block ads. The company today announced that the developer version of its browser now includes native ad-blocking technology; no extensions or plug-ins needed. Once enabled (via ...

Opera Software has today unveiled a new version of its desktop web browser, featuring advert-blocking technology built into the webpage rendering engine. According to Opera's own testing, the ...

Another brick in the wall for the mobile ad-blocking wars: Yandex has opened up its Android browser to third-party ad blocking extensions. The browser already had Yandex’s own ad-blocking tech built ...

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 ...

Adblock Plus has released a browser for Android and iOS that is designed to shield mobile device users from ads while they browse the web. Both the Android and iOS versions are available now for free, ...

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 ...

Brave Software, the new web browser company co-founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding for the continued development of its open source browser that blocks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I play in the intersection of law and technology. When considered with Google’s other exclusionary behavior, the coalition’s ...

Makers of the controversial Brave browser last week began testing a payment system that ultimately will be used to compensate websites when their revenue-generating ads are blocked, then replaced by ...