Mozilla has revealed that one of the most popular Firefox plugins, AdBlock Plus, can potentially consume megabytes, or even gigabytes, of RAM on users' machines during browsing. AdBlock Plus - which ...

A popular plugin was recently cloned and downloaded more than 37,000 before people caught on. Over 1,400 counterfeit versions of the extension have been reported over the past two years, across all ...

The letter to Twitter, the US company preparing for a $15bn stock market flotation, sounded reasonable enough - if cheeky. "We would like to partner with you to engineer acceptable, non-intrusive ...

The makers of Adblock Plus offer web browser plugins that let you surf the web without encountering ads… or at least without seeing ads that have been deemed “acceptable” if you choose not to disable ...

Mozilla warned this week that the popular Adblock Plus plugin could potentially suck up gigabytes of memory from PCs using its Firefox browser, thanks to bugs and the design of the plugin itself. And, ...

Eyeo GmbH, the German developer of adblocking browser plugin Adblock Plus, today launched a new project designed to tackle fake news called Trusted News. The new project is also a browser extension, ...

Since 2011, AdBlock Plus, a popular browser plugin that blocks online ads, has kept a “whitelist” of websites that are allowed to serve ads despite the presence of the AdBlock Plus plugin. In an ...

The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons site. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using ...