The best ad blockers make using the internet more tolerable and more secure. They work by automatically removing intrusive ads in your web browser – and sometimes other notifications like cookie ...

Will someone please save the Internet? How about the guy who invented the thing that is now mucking it up? At the center of the Web's crisis is ad-blocking software ...

Interactive Advertising Bureau head honcho Randall Rothenberg blasted ad blockers at the start of the industry group’s annual leadership meeting on Monday, calling them “profiteers” and a threat to ...

This holiday season, consider giving the gift of security with an ad blocker. That’s the takeaway message from an unlikely source — the FBI — which this week issued an alert warning that ...

Advertising pays for a lot of what you see on the Internet. This makes ad blockers a big deal. Readers are using them. Advertisers are panicking about them. Publishers are attempting to quash them.

The scheme is the latest bid in the debate over network neutrality, which pits content companies like Google against some Internet service providers. The ISPs say they need to take reasonable steps to ...

The Internet is at war with itself. An online arms race is pitting users against advertisers, publishers against the developers of ad and cookie blockers, and Apple against Google. The war started ...

Google, already one of the dominant players in the online advertising world, may soon have even more power in that space. It is now taking on the challenge of determining what’s a good ad or a bad ad ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast Corp are inappropriately blocking or slowing their ...