On Tuesday, Facebook announced it will begin showing ads in desktop browsers “for people who currently use ad blocking software.” Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocking tool with over 500 million ...

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 ...

Not open for further replies. If ads were not so intrusive and quite frankly a bandwidth hog and security risk, we'd not be in this situation. In this case, I'm afraid the advertisers can only blame ...

A popular platform for blocking ads on websites announced it is launching a service to allow some ads on the screens of users. Eyeo GmbH, the owner of Adblock Plus, said the “Acceptable Ads Platform” ...

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Obviously, Gonzales is not the only one contending with adblocker. We did a simple YouTube search and found many voices to add to that chorus. MAN ...

“The Internet advertising landscape has evolved from being an annoying experience to something more insidious,” said Maxthon founder and CEO Jeff Chen. “This partnership with Adblock Plus provides our ...

But ad blocking extensions typically remove ads as well as blocking them. For banner ads that means gaining back screen real estate on the webpage, while for videos that means the content starts ...

NEW YORK — Internet users who install ad-blocking software to escape annoying advertisements may actually be seeing more problematic content than people who browse without any protection at all.

If sites hadn't opted to have obnoxious adverts (Ars included, everyone remembers the old LG ad, and currently there seems to be a large ad which sometimes appears at the top of the screen, pushing ...