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 ...

YouTube has been at war with ad blocker extensions since they came into popularity, and now the company behind the largest video platform in the world has moved to implement what is easily the most ...