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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 ...

Temporary workarounds exist ...

Data shows Google’s attempts to force people to watch YouTube ads are having an effect on user behavior. 22% of users surveyed said the crackdown is more likely to make them use an ad-blocker. 16% of ...

An app developer has had a crisis of crisis of conscience that has pushed him to pull his ad blocker from Apple’s app store after it became the most downloaded. The Peace mobile app shot to the top of ...

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