Here's a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus, which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than ...

A year ago, the rise of ad blockers put the online advertising ecosystem into an existential crisis. But not only did the ‘adpocalypse’ never materialize, many of the same stakeholders who were on the ...

Germany-based Adblock Plus (ABP) on Tuesday debuted its beta supply-side platform (SSP) offering, called the Acceptable Ads Platform. It marks the company’s first move into an ad tech space it ...

It's no secret that browser extensions can have a negative effect on memory usage. Mozilla has conducted some research that once again reiterates just how much RAM extensions like Adblock Plus can eat ...

Adblock Plus, easily the most popular Firefox browser extension, recently hit the 100 million downloads milestone. Soon, the developer(s) behind the add-on will be releasing a beta extension for ...

I got a little too excited when the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) chief called Adblock Plus (ABP) "an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes." I immediately wanted to know when ...

The Adblock Plus crowdsourced hacker militia can’t keep up with Facebook’s disciplined army of engineers. When Facebook first announced it would circumvent ad blocking software, Adblock Plus (ABP) ...

The creator of Adblock Plus, the most popular browser add-on in the world, has finally acted on his crisis of faith and turned off ad blocking for non-intrusive "acceptable ads." This change has only ...

For years, desktop users have sworn by Adblock Plus (ABP), the efficient browser extension for hiding Web ads, and the service is finally making its way to mobile. ABP’s developers have launched ...

AdBlock Plus is the most popular extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. But its ad-blocking benefits come with a price: very high CPU and memory usage, which could be a big problem if you’re ...