It looks like Google Chrome really wants you to look at advertisements. In a quote post on X posted by Raymond Hill, the developer who brought us the free ad blocker Chrome extension uBlock Origin, it ...

The fake Adblock Plus Chrome extension attracted over 37,000 users. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

Google has removed a malicious extension from its Chrome Web Store that posed as the popular AdBlock Plus ad blocker but forcibly opened new tabs to show ads to users. As the researcher points out in ...

Here's a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus, which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than ...

The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad blocker into Google Chrome, the world's most popular ...

Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, raised concerns on Tuesday via the Chromium bug tracker that upcoming changes to certain Chrome APIs would mean his extensions can "no longer ...

Comet browser has its own ad blocker powered by Adblock Rust, the open-source engine developed by Brave, which keeps ads and ...

Popular ad-blocking browser extension AdBlock has added a new feature that will cache popular JavaScript libraries locally on the users' computers. The feature is currently available only via the ...

Google has to be very careful about this. Because they are both an advertising company and a technology company, Google could get hit for monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. If Google blocks ...