The very notion of browsing the modern internet without a pop-up blocker feels kind of like driving a car without a windshield: it's not strictly required, but doing so may be hazardous to your health ...

Everyone should be able to enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience. Yet popup ads can be a constant nuisance. Enter popup blockers. These software tools or browser extensions are designed to ...

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 ...

Yesterday, in our Mac OS X 10.3.8 coverage, we noted a few reports of users seeing pop-up ads in Safari since installing the 10.3.8 Update, even though Safari's "Block Pop-Up Windows" feature is ...

If you want to allow or block pop-up windows on specific sites in the Microsoft Edge browser, here is how you can do that. You can do that with the help of in-built settings, the Local Group Policy ...

Most browser apps do embed pop-up blockers that are programmed to prevent unwanted pop-up screens from cluttering and interfering with your browsing experience. Each of these pop-up blocker can be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 2 years old. YouTube is ramping up its ad ...

This is probably Gmail-related, but it didn't clearly fit into any category here, so I thought I'd post here. Feel free to move this if there's a more suitable forum. Grrr! A popup blocker may be ...

YouTube is cracking down on ad-blockers stating they violate the Terms of Service. Users are reporting getting a pop-up when starting videos that tells them to ...

Microsoft’s strategy of using pop-up advertising to promote new features and services has returned—and ad blockers can do nothing against it. I saw two examples of this on Monday morning using ...