No one likes ads — pop-up or otherwise — intruding on their online experience of reading or video viewing, but ads are everywhere on the internet. One of the best ways to shield yourself from them is ...

Prepare to have your mind blown: This weekend, the creator of the popular AdBlock software—which kills the ads you’d normally see while trawling the Web—launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for ads ...

About 15% to 30% of website traffic is from people with ad-blocking software, online ad firm Blockthrough reports. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

A few months back I postulated that Adblock Plus and other ad blocking software could act as protection against malware because they kept embedded malware in web pages from ever loading in your ...