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  2. Fake ad blockers in the Chrome store had over 20 million installs

    www.engadget.com/2018-04-19-fake-chrome-ad...

    If you can't find that ad blocker you recently installed from the Chrome Web Store, you might want to do some browser spring cleaning. Google has killed five top-ranking ad blockers after AdGuard ...

  3. Adblock Plus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus

    Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking.It is developed by Eyeo GmbH, a German software company.The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including mobile), Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge (Chromium based version), Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Android.

  4. 37,000 Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension

    www.engadget.com/2017-10-09-fake-adblock-plus...

    Apparently, a fake Adblock Plus extension made it through Google's verification process and lived in the official Chrome Web Store alongside the real one. Google has taken down the phony listing ...

  5. Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker | TechCrunch

    techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker

    One of the FBI’s recommendations for consumers is to install an ad blocker. As the name suggests, ad blockers are web browser extensions that broadly block online ads from loading in your ...

  6. AdBlock - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock

    AdBlock is an ad-blocking browser extension for Google Chrome, Apple Safari (desktop and mobile), Firefox, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge and Opera. [4] [5] AdBlock allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being displayed. It is free to download and use, and it includes optional donations to the developers. [6]

  7. Potentially 'undefeatable' ad blocker looks at content, not code

    www.engadget.com/2017-04-16-potentially...

    Existing blockers scour a webpage's source code for signs that they are ads, but those can easily be disguised by anti ad-blocking sites. Narayanan's team designed Perceptual to ignore hidden HTML ...

  8. Chrome Web Store - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_Web_Store

    History. Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, [2] and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. [3] A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4] As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content ...

  9. These 6 browser extensions will improve your online privacy

    techcrunch.com/2021/01/10/these-6-browser...

    After all, a free web that relies on ad tracking to make money is what got us into this privacy nightmare to begin with. uBlock Origin works in Chrome , Firefox and Edge and the extension is open ...