Brave's initial refactoring effort, as of June 2025, saw the memory footprint shrink from 150 MB to 121 MB. By October 2025, ...

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Adblock Plus has pledged greater transparency for its users and has made a start by revealing how the company generates the revenue required to keep going. It turns out that licensing is key for the ...

On Tuesday this week, Facebook made waves by breaking ad blockers, implementing technology to show ads to people who are using ad blocking technology in their desktop browsers. Within two days the ...

The more you use AdBlock Plus, the more it's configured to your specific preferences. Certain pages are able to display ads while others are completely blocked. In some cases, blocking ads on specific ...

Adblock Plus is the world's most popular free advert blocker with more than 10 million users. It has extensions that run in all the major web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Whatever your views are on online advertising, it's here to stay. But that doesn't mean that companies aren't doing all they can to strip the web of ads on your behalf. Perhaps the most notable is ...

Adblock and Adblock Plus users report performance issues on YouTube, initially blamed on Google but later determined to be an issue in the popular ad-blocking extension. Adblock and Adblock Plus are ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen. Rather than ...