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 ...

Can you imagine an evening of watching YouTube videos without seeing a single ad? Or an afternoon of reading the news without being bombarded with pop-ups or banners that cover half your screen? That ...

Spotify's web player is one of its best features, but it also opens the door to a significant problem: Ad blockers. If you have a free account on Spotify, you can circumvent the banner ads and ...

Your Google Chrome mobile experience is about to get better. Credit: imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock Google is making a move to upgrade your mobile browsing experience ...

Annoying ads on websites that just get in the way of what you are trying to read are some of the biggest nuisances of the internet, especially when it comes to inappropriate advertisements. You do not ...

The YouTube ad blocker cat-and-mouse game between Google and ad blockers continues with a new episode that might deliver a big win to Google. The company has been trying to ban ad blocker extensions ...

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 ...

Starting tomorrow, February 15, Google will begin to block certain types of online ads using a new built-in ad blocking technology it announced last June. Below are the basic things a user needs to ...

In privacy-focused, anti-establishment corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred. It signals that you not only have nothing to hide, but also welcome the ...

Update: October 31, 2023 (11:26 PM ET): After our original report about an increasing number of users being unable to use ad blockers on YouTube, the platform has confirmed to The Verge that it has ...

You might think a blocker is just for pop-ups, but according to the feds, the bad guys are trying to ensnare you with malicious ads in search results. Reading time 2 minutes The Federal Bureau of ...