The average website seems to have more ads than content. There's the banner at the top, the square in the sidebar, and in most cases, a few auto-playing video ads thrown in for good measure. Ad ...

Hackers and malicious viruses are very much a concern when you’re on the web, but the biggest threats to your productivity and your privacy come from everyday internet hazards. AdGuard — an ad blocker ...

Inevitably, whenever there is a discussion on the internet about how YouTube (or any other website) is choked with ads, someone will say, "Just use an ad blocker." The name seems to say it all. An ad ...

Last year, Google announced changes to its Chrome browser that signaled the end for popular extension uBlock Origin. The ad-blocker’s design put it at odds with Google’s new Manifest v3 requirements, ...

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Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services The Best VPN With Ad Blockers in 2025 If there’s one thing virtually every internet user can agree on, it’s that ads are annoying. Nobody likes how ...

If you tried to use YouTube early Friday morning, you might have been among the many that found themselves struggling to get videos to load. Reports of YouTube being down flooded Downdetector around ...

Google's changing the ways ad blockers work on Chrome, but there are ways to get around it. Google first made its intentions for ad blockers clear back in 2019, when it discussed how the extensions ...

YouTube has strengthened its defence against ad blockers. Free users are in uproar that their ad blockers are no longer working on the site. YouTube has long been cracking down on viewers who use ad ...

Originally, Ad-Shield Co-Founder and CEO Joon Yu intended to build software to block ads, not for ad block recovery. But a chance interaction with the owner of a popular Korean gaming website that was ...

YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

To fix the “Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube” issue in Brave, disable Shields for YouTube by clicking the Brave icon in the address bar and toggle it off ...