Ad blockers have quickly becomes some of the most downloaded items in Apple’s app store. But most of them will cost you at least a nominal amount of money if you want to unlock all of their features.

Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins to the browser preinstalled on its Android phones. The first plugin available for Samsung’s browser was Adblock Fast, a free and ...

Days after Samsung-supported ad blocker Adblock Fast premiered on the Play Store, Google kicked the Android plugin out. It wasn't too long ago when Samsung packed in support for ad-blocking extensions ...

Google has reversed the ban of ad blockers from the Play Store. In early February, Google pulled out many ad blockers including Adblock Fast, which has now been restored for Samsung's Android browser.

Samsung brought adblocking to mobile browser this week which promptly caught the ire of Google. Now pulled from the Play Store, the Adblock Fast app -- which used Samsung's custom API -- exceeded ...

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Google appears to have reversed its earlier decision to ban ad blockers from the Google Play store – a move which had seen the company pulling apps like Adblock Fast and stalling the updates for ...

Earlier this week, Samsung rolled out support for ad blocking in the new version of its web browser for mobile devices, the Samsung Internet Browser. Third-party developers quickly responded by ...

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Jealous of iPhone users who don’t have to look at ads when browsing the Web? Well envy them no more because Samsung has updated its Android browser app — which has the catchy name “Internet” — giving ...

Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus–an ad-blocking tool that removes pesky banner ads, pop-ups, and video advertising and is available today for iOS devices–has opted to allow an external board ...