Ads don’t just slow you down — they can be dangerous too, as trackers and activity analyzers try to steal your data. If you ...

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Q: On a few websites, I receive a message that reads, “disable ad blocker to continue.” (Foxnews.com is one site, for example.) This happens with Firefox, Chrome and Edge browsers. I searched program ...

Inevitably, whenever there is a discussion on the internet about how YouTube (or any other website) is choked with ads, someone will say, "Just use an ad blocker." The name seems to say it all. An ad ...

Ads are a frustrating part of being online, but you aren’t stuck with them. With a little help, you can clear out ads and make browsing a lot easier for the whole family. Adguard is a user-friendly ...

There's a lot on the internet that slows it down and makes it unsafe, from insecure ad networks to outright criminal activity. The AdGuard 3-Year Subscription Bundle gives you peace of mind online ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: How do we stop the pop out ads from the right of our screen every few minutes for something on Skype without ...

Blockthrough, a technology company focused on helping publishers recover advertising revenue otherwise lost to ad-blocking software, has released research showing that desktop ad blocking rose 5% in ...

This holiday season, consider giving the gift of security with an ad blocker. That’s the takeaway message from an unlikely source — the FBI — which this week issued an alert warning that ...

In a nutshell: YouTube recently ratcheted up its fight against ad blockers, launching a global effort to stop users from sidestepping ads on its platform. Early reports indicate the campaign is having ...

Your days spent watching YouTube with an ad blocker enabled may soon be over. In what the company is calling a “small experiment,” select users are currently ...