Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

Many websites use pop-ups and overlays to get you to sign up for newsletters, request cookie access, or promote offers. Although some web browsers come with built-in pop-up blockers to deal with these ...

Chrome and Firefox: Pop-ups are back, baby! They offer 10% off, they ask you to subscribe to newsletters (sorry), they pull up a chat window so customer service can help you spend your money. If those ...

From excessive ads to distracting sites, I'm tired of feeling like the internet is taking advantage of me. That's why I use these handy Chrome extensions to stop the distractions and claw back some ...

This Chrome extension adds a button to your right-click menu, providing a quick and consistent way to close annoying overlays. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and ...

If you spend any amount of time on the Internet, you’re almost guaranteed to have come across annoying advertisements in multiple forms, including pop ups, auto-playing ads, and more. They’re ...

Pop-ups and ads are a fact of life, especially if you spend a significant amount of time on the Internet. However, there are good ads (banners on the sides of web pages that don’t play audio or get in ...

Since January, we’ve been following a set of major changes to extensions on Google Chrome, called Manifest V3, which includes a controversial rework of how ad blockers are expected to function. In ...

Just about every browser, now that Windows XP SP2 has been released, includes built-in functionality for blocking pop-up windows. However, as a number of threads throughout the Ars forums have ...