All the top desktop browsers now can use a plug-in that blocks Web site ads -- except for nonintrusive ones from companies that pay to be whitelisted. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Adblock Plus today announced it is finally dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. As a result, the next version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer will no longer install ...

Pi-hole, a popular ad-blocking software, has dropped support for AdBlock-style blocklists -- the types of lists used by browser-based adblockers to stop ads. Pi-hole is a type of software that users ...

Adblock, a popular extension for blocking advertising in Chrome and Safari with more than 40 million users, was quietly sold today. The extension displayed a popup on October 1 saying that it is now ...

Blocking obnoxious ads while browsing the web is something that I believe should come built-in to all browsers, or at least those on mobile devices with limited bandwidth. Although the beta version of ...