Need to pause a YouTube video? Don't be surprised if an ad pops up. The Google-owned video sharing platform has widely rolled out "pause ads" ‒ static advertisements that appear on-screen when a ...

One of the more annoying things about Windows 11 is that the operating system displays ads in the Start menu for promoted apps and services from the Microsoft Store. The good news is, you can turn ...

The best ad blockers should block not just pop-ups, but also annoying and often invasive advertising. As a bonus, some ad blockers also do away with rouge adverts and website malware. In order to ...

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First, YouTube subjected viewers to longer unskippable ads. Now, not even pausing your screen will let users escape. The Google-owned platform confirmed Thursday that it has “widely rolled out ...

In an ongoing outreach effort to young male voters, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign bought advertising space on IGN, the world’s biggest games media outlet. Static and ...

But you may have noticed as you’ve scrolled through social media or read the news online recently that the ads you see are often impersonal and irrelevant to your interests. They are also ...

By Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson On YouTube, an ad for the car company Mazda appeared before a video that repeated the racist falsehood that Haitian migrants in Ohio were “eating ducks on t ...

It’s been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button and 18 months since Google revealed that YouTube would serve them up, too. Now, YouTube confirms ...

I’ve written a lot about ad blockers in the last few weeks, from Google’s Chrome updates making some popular options inoperable, to alternatives that will work, to my reason for blocking every ...

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With only six weeks left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are flooding voters with ads and rallies in several battleground states, including Georg ...