In the age of the internet, pop-up ads are seemingly everywhere. No doubt they’re useful to the companies displaying them – they enhance visibility and can generate leads and revenue. But for the user ...

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There is a built-in tool, but Safari extensions are better This article explains how to block ads in Safari on iPhones using content blockers. Your phone must have iOS 9 or higher to use content ...

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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 ...

Want to block ads on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad? wBlock is quickly becoming my favorite solution: it's free, open source, fast, and customizable. Ad blocking is in a weird place. Google, the company ...

Sometimes pop-ups are harmful, while other times they are necessary. On Safari, you can enable pop-ups for all websites. There is a better route that requires creating exceptions. You're on your MacOS ...

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 ...

There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today. It turns out that YouTube is working fine. The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update. YouTube has ...

Over the past few days, there have been an increasing number of reports about supposed YouTube outages. The number of reports rose sharply on fault-tracking platforms ...