A rogue website uses pop-ups to trick visitors into subscribing to its browser notifications. Thus, it can send unwanted ads to your desktop.
Daisybuleonclock.com is such a shady website that lures visitors and makes them accept push notifications. Most probably…
Google confirmed it blocked some Australian news websites for a small number of users. The government reacted and asked the giant to focus on paying for Australian content, rather than blocking access to it.
Media reported news websites blocked
Some media reported…
Here we offer you a 2020 review of the advertising industry that is struggling to make more money and it wants to protect its trackers for this. There were many shy attempts to get rid of the third-party cookies – those pieces of code that advertisers use to follow us.
Disturbing ads are those that, initially, seem to be online unharmful and useful commercials. And we see thousands of them, every day. But most of the time, they prevent us from reading or seeing the content we are interested in. So, how many of these ads would be…
Some of the strongest companies’ CEOs chose the no ads strategy, just to avoid bothering users. Maybe one of the best known is Elon Musk, but there are still other famous names who did the same. Just to mention one of them: Steve Jobs.
The no ads approach…
Users
should say “Good bye!” to the actual Facebook look. Although the
company did not announce it publicly, the design that has been the
new default since May will become the only option, starting
September.
A simple notification
So, the company did not make…
Online fraud is now more than ever a way that hackers explore in order to make easy money. Thus, they try to mislead users into clicking fake ads or even hijack the users that click on legitimate ads.
What is online fraud?
Well,
according to the
Collins…
More people decide to use an ad blocker in order to get rid of annoying ads. This is because they have become very intrusive and make pages load slower.
Moreover,
the data usage increases because of them. Also, the fact that they
follow us everywhere, based on our online…
As the pandemic also brought a financial crisis for some companies, online ads became the main way for them to reach their costumers. Online companies try to take benefit of this situation and invest more in online advertising, while the offline ones need to adapt, in order…
The premium version of Ad Guardian Plus offers you more options to protect yourself, besides the free for life possibility to block annoying ads. These are: the privacy guard and the safety browsing feature.
Avoid online data trackers, with “Privacy Guard”
The…
