Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a growing split over how much room browsers should leave for ad blocking — and Chrome and Firefox have ...

Google’s journey toward Chrome’s “Manifest V3” has been happening for four years now, and if the company’s new timeline holds up, we’ll all be forced to switch to it in year 5. “Manifest V3” is the ...

The uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker extension has arrived for Safari. This extension is much better at blocking ads than most built-in blockers. Make sure to install the official extension -- we have ...

A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular Firefox browser extension that blocks text and display ads. “Accessing the content while blocking the ads ...

This seems like a prime opportunity for Firefox's devs to figure out some way to bring back something like the old XUL extensions where the extension could prevent the browser from even downloading ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons site. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using ...

A malicious ad-blocking extension on Chrome and Edge known as NexShield is using the ClickFix attack to infect devices with a ...