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, ...

Android is often criticized for having malware that gets passed Google's automated Play Store bouncer, but it is far from being the only Google-made platform to have such problems. A recent incident ...

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 ...

A fake AdBlock Plus extension made its way to Chrome’s official Web Store and was downloaded 37,000 times by users across the globe. Google removed the listing after it was spotted by a security ...

Manifest V3 specification, uBlock Origin and other extensions that were only available in the old Manifest V2 specification are now showing warnings that they will no longer be usable. Finally, uBlock ...

A researcher has uncovered five malicious ad-blocker extensions on the Chrome Web Store that were installed by 20 million Chrome users before Google removed them. The bogus ad blockers were discovered ...

Google is planning on removing one of the most popular ad blockers available on Chrome, as the company informs users who now attempt to download it that it "may soon no longer be supported." That ad ...