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AdBlock Is Borking Google Docs

For the past day or so, countless Google Docs and Google Drive users have reported a slew of formatting hiccups that rendered writing tools unusable. Cursors would freeze, highlighting wouldn’t work, and any text typed looked like utter shit. And now we have a culprit. On Wednesday, Google Drive product manager Remy Burger confirmed that…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Apr 15

These Browser Extensions Will Show You Exactly Who’s Tracking You on the Web

Get a detailed breakdown of the tracking technologies embedded in a webpage and do something about it.

Gadgets David Nield Aug 14

I Was Horrified at How Many Ads the New Brave Browser and VPN for iOS Blocked

Brave announced today that it's partnering up with Guardian to launch a new version of its iOS browser

Reviews Victoria Song Jul 27

Google’s Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers

Top developers behind ad-blocking and anti-tracking browser extensions say they’re alarmed by potential changes coming to Chrome recently disclosed in a public Google document. As a result, at least one company is now threatening possible legal action. The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jan 23

Ad Blocker Ghostery Celebrates GDPR Day by Revealing Hundreds of User Email Addresses

Ad-blocking tool Ghostery suffered from a pretty impressive, self-inflicted screwup Friday when the privacy-minded company accidentally CCed hundreds of its users in an email, revealing their addresses to all recipients. Fittingly, the inadvertent data exposure came in the form of an email updating Ghostery users about the company’s data collection policies. The ad blocker was…

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger May 25

Ad Blocker Ghostery Is Going Open Source to Win Back Some Privacy Points

The ad blocker Ghostery is shaking up its business model and open-sourcing its code in a bid to earn more consumer trust. The company faced criticism last year over its business model, which involved selling anonymized user data to businesses—not the kind of behavior you’d expect from a privacy tool. Now, Ghostery is ditching that…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Mar 8

Google’s Big Ad-Blocking Update Comes to Chrome: Here’s What We Know

It’s been in the works for nearly a year and Google’s great ad-pocalypse is now upon us. On Thursday, the Chrome browser will begin to automatically filter out ads that don’t meet certain quality standards. Your browsing experience is about to change a little bit. Here’s what you need to know. In April of last…

Tech News Rhett Jones Feb 14

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

A certain portion of the internet is freaking out over a change to an important list used by ad blockers that facilitates their function. Popular coding repository GitHub received a DMCA request (the same tool copyright holders use to remove links to pirated music and movies online) to remove a domain name from the ad…

Tech News Rhett Jones Aug 12

There’s an Easy Way To Quickly Disable iOS 9’s Content Blocking in Safari

If you’ve got that new and improved iOS 9, then Safari now includes content blocking capabilities. These blockers are enabled or disabled through the Safari section of Settings, but if you want to temporarily view a site in the way its makers intended then there’s a quick shortcut. Tap and hold on the reload button…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 28

AdBlock Is Borking Google Docs

These Browser Extensions Will Show You Exactly Who’s Tracking You on the Web

I Was Horrified at How Many Ads the New Brave Browser and VPN for iOS Blocked

Google’s Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers

Ad Blocker Ghostery Celebrates GDPR Day by Revealing Hundreds of User Email Addresses

Ad Blocker Ghostery Is Going Open Source to Win Back Some Privacy Points

Google’s Big Ad-Blocking Update Comes to Chrome: Here’s What We Know

A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated

There’s an Easy Way To Quickly Disable iOS 9’s Content Blocking in Safari

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