Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee ...

Originally, Ad-Shield Co-Founder and CEO Joon Yu intended to build software to block ads, not for ad block recovery. But a chance interaction with the owner of a popular Korean gaming website that was ...

Adoption of mobile ad-blocking software is growing fast around the world, but the usage rate remains relatively low in the United States, compared to other countries, according to a new report from ...

Could tinkering with a site’s code to hide ads count as infringement? A recent ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has reopened the possibility that using ad blocking software could ...

The use of ad-blocking tools in the UK is on the rise, according to a report from the IAB and YouGov. Usage among British adults has risen from 18 per cent to 22 per cent since October 2015.

Companies offering anti-ad-blocking tools are popping up all over the place. These companies are hoping to cash in on the industry’s furor over ad blocking by marketing software designed to confront ...

$21.8 billion in advertising revenues will be lost in 2015 due to ad blocking software, a new report by PageFair has shown. According to the study the number of ad block users worldwide has increased ...

In what many users are calling the latest move in its ongoing battle against ad blockers, YouTube is increasingly displaying missing comments and sometimes even video ...

My three-part series covering the recent spurt of ad blocking software was supposed to be simple. Part one dealt with uBlock Origin for desktop browsers. Part two took a look at the new Adblock ...

Two days after Facebook announced that users would be seeing loads more adverts appearing on their homepage, the site's been defeated by new ad-blocking software. Facebook claimed that it would force ...