“Not every experience should be pleasurable. Sometimes we need friction, safety warnings,” Turner said. Those disclosures ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

In this week's column, Shirley Marschall looks at the history of ad blocking, and why the user loses, and the publisher loses twice... Remember those little 'No advertising. No flyers.' stickers ...

Want to block ads on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad? wBlock is quickly becoming my favorite solution: it's free, open source, fast, and customizable. Ad blocking is in a weird place. Google, the company ...

Over the past few days, there have been an increasing number of reports about supposed YouTube outages. The number of reports rose sharply on fault-tracking platforms ...

YouTube has once again stepped up its efforts against ad blockers, leaving many desktop users frustrated. Thousands of users have reported that the platform either shows a blank homepage, stalls while ...

YouTube might have started a new crackdown on ad blockers, as several users have reported that the YouTube website is not functioning properly when used in a desktop ...

If you tried to use YouTube early Friday morning, you might have been among the many that found themselves struggling to get videos to load. Reports of YouTube being down flooded Downdetector around ...

There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today. It turns out that YouTube is working fine. The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update. YouTube has ...

Why this is important: This isn’t just a bug, but a spotlight on how major platforms like YouTube are tightening control over reasoned ad-blocking. For users, the shift means the browsing experience ...