Whether you're looking to stop video ads, pop-ups, trackers, or malware, the top ad blockers we've tested help create a cleaner, faster, and more secure online environment. I review privacy tools like ...

Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.… Developer Raymond Hill, or gorhill on GitHub, is ...

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas openly admitted the company is building its new browser, Comet, to collect user data for ad targeting. Unlike others, Perplexity is refreshingly upfront about its plan ...

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 ...

Perhaps nothing can stay ad-free forever. Brave launched in 2016 as an open-source, ad-blocking, privacy-forward web browser to compete with Google’s Chrome. But in 2019, soon after Brave exited beta, ...

Use Brave Browser for YouTube to watch ad-free videos with background play and PiP. Faster, private streaming without Premium ...

“The Internet advertising landscape has evolved from being an annoying experience to something more insidious,” said Maxthon founder and CEO Jeff Chen. “This partnership with Adblock Plus provides our ...

A new Google Ads malvertising campaign, coinciding with the launch of the Arc web browser for Windows, was tricking people into downloading trojanized installers that infect them with malware payloads ...

Using an ad blocker to watch YouTube videos will help you avoid the ads that Google shoves down our throats. Google obviously isn't a fan of the practice, and I previously explained why ads are ...

Just another parasitic entity trying to insert itself between the end user and the actual creator of valuable content on the internet. Nothing to see here. Move along, people! PS: That said I'm pretty ...