The fake Adblock Plus Chrome extension attracted over 37,000 users. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

Google has removed a malicious extension from its Chrome Web Store that posed as the popular AdBlock Plus ad blocker but forcibly opened new tabs to show ads to users. As the researcher points out in ...

Do you use Google’s Chrome browser on your PC or Mac to visit websites? And if so, do you have an ad blocker installed? If you’ve not been paying attention to the recent cries of pain from the makers ...

Here's a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus, which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than ...

Earlier this year, Google announced plans to implement an in-browser ad blocker within Chrome. Those plans were revealed back in June, and at the time, Google said that the ad blocker it was working ...

The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad blocker into Google Chrome, the world's most popular ...

Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, raised concerns on Tuesday via the Chromium bug tracker that upcoming changes to certain Chrome APIs would mean his extensions can "no longer ...

The Wall Street Journal reported last night that within a few weeks, Google may add an ad blocker to Chrome and turn it on by default. Here is what they said "Google is planning to introduce an ...

Online advertising is broken. Pop-ups cover half your screen and won't go away and autoplay videos blare marketing jingles, driving us to install ad blockers, cutting into publishers' revenue. With no ...

Popular ad-blocking browser extension AdBlock has added a new feature that will cache popular JavaScript libraries locally on the users' computers. The feature is currently available only via the ...

Google has to be very careful about this. Because they are both an advertising company and a technology company, Google could get hit for monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. If Google blocks ...