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 ...

Adblock Plus is one of the most popular extensions for Chrome with more than 10 million users and 150,000 glowing reviews. However, a spammer was recently able to infiltrate the Chrome web store with ...

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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 ...

Google is due to release an in-built adblocker for its Chrome browser in February, which will stop users seeing the most irritating types of ads. Rival adblocker Adblock Plus has released research ...

A fraudulent Adblock Plus extension managed to bypass Google's verification process and became available for a certain period on the official Web Store, according to reports. It was eventually pulled ...

Chrome’s new adblock-limiting extension plan is still on. The company paused the rollout of the new “Manifest V3” extension format a year ago after an outcry over how much it would damage some of ...

Just like other browsers, Chrome is prone to annoying ads or pop-up windows – many of the ads are actually from Google, placed through its advertising networks. If you want to get more work done with ...

Google Chrome is a free browser made available, as its name suggests, by Google. It's possible to avail of it for free by agreeing to receive ads from third-party companies. However, there are many ...