Ads are ugly, they make websites look and perform worse, and their weird tricks—like appearing suddenly or autoplaying videos—can be extremely irritating. Ad blockers seek to rein in those problems ...

Opera Software - currently the subject of a $1.2bn takeover bid by a consortium of Chinese investors - is including an ad blocker in the latest version of its desktop web browser that, it claims, will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 2 years old. YouTube is ramping up its ad ...

The free ride is over—Google confirms that its limited adoption of anti-ad block features on YouTube is going global. From now on, anyone attempting to use an ad ...

Why pay a monthly subscription for YouTube Premium when these Chrome extensions offer power and functionality at no ...

According to app developer Jen-Yi Tan, who is closely monitoring trends in YouTube's ad blocking measures, ad blockers have been blocking YouTube ads in the following ways. First, YouTube checks the ...

anti-ad blockers to block ad blockers, and popular ad blockers like Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin are no longer working on YouTube. FadBlock is an ad blocker that claims to be able to use it on ...

YouTube ads have gotten way out of hand in recent years, but despite that, ads are still necessary to handle the costs of running the world’s largest video platform, and paying the millions of ...

As part of its bid to ‘build a better web for everyone’ Google has revealed it will introduce ad-filtering into the Chrome browser by early 2018. Google plans to block ads that are not compliant with ...

Chrome is available for desktop computers and a wide range of mobile devices Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads ...