Adblock, the popular extension for Chrome and Safari, has announced via a pop-up to users that it has been sold — but doesn't mention a price or a buyer. The company was previously privately owned by ...

In 2006, Adblock Plus 0.6 was released as a browser extension that promised to keep users’ Web experience uncluttered and advertising-free. As the Internet became overrun with auto-play videos, ...

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Adblock Plus is the world's most popular free advert blocker with more than 10 million users. It has extensions that run in all the major web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular ad-blocking tool, today announced ...

Whatever your views are on online advertising, it's here to stay. But that doesn't mean that companies aren't doing all they can to strip the web of ads on your behalf. Perhaps the most notable is ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Adblock Plus wants to protect you from sites using your computer ...

The free Adblock Browser lets you block ads, trackers, social media buttons and other annoyances on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch Ad blockers have been in the news a lot lately, and many users have ...

Have you heard of the AdBlock Mozilla extension? It's an extension on Mozilla Firefox that blocks malware and tracking software and serves as an ad blocker to block unwanted advertisements. You can ...

The developers of AdBlock Plus, an extension for Firefox that blocks advertising on websites, are trying to contain a brewing controversy over their decision to allow some non-flashy ads to be ...

When Adblock Plus unveiled its own ad network in a bid to make money from toned-down ads, it raised more than a few eyebrows... including those of its supposed ad partners. While the company said that ...

One of the developers behind free desktop ad blocker, Adblock Ultimate, says he is "surprised and confused" after a trademark complaint from the company behind the popular ad blocker, Adblock Plus, ...