Collaborate Disseminate
‘AdBlock’ and ‘uBlock’ impersonate legitimate extensions but instead engage in cookie stuffing to defraud affiliate marketing programs, a researcher has found. Continue reading Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme
It is technically pretty simple to disable those pop ups, but many ad blocker plugins choose to let them live. Continue reading Why Your Ad Blocker Doesn’t Block Those ‘Please Turn Off Your Ad Blocker’ Popups
Typically, adblockers are able to counter Facebook’s updates within a matter of days, but the latest was a more substantial undertaking. Continue reading Facebook’s Arms Race with Adblockers Continues to Escalate
Mozilla promises all the revenue-generating analytics, none of the privacy-skewering. Continue reading Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult.
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Researchers say cyrptojackers are bypassing ad-blocking software in an attempt to run in-browser cyrptocurrency miner Coinhive. Continue reading Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts
Google wants to filter the pop-ups, prestitials and sticky ads out of your face Continue reading Chrome’s built-in adblocker arrives for early adopters
Researchers say there’s no way Facebook can wiggle out of rules requiring social media to label ads, and their Chrome extension proves it. Continue reading Facebook’s unblockable-ads push is a “big bluff”
Neither fairy dust nor Santa will keep you from Google ads, but it’s got a new place to find out what it knows about you and how. Continue reading My Activity: a tool to see what Google knows about you
Adblock Plus is partnering with Flattr on a way to both skip dangerous/aggravating ads and yet still toss a few crusts at ad-reliant sites. Continue reading Adblock Plus to let us tip sites to make up for not enduring ads