Opera has come out swinging in the war against online advertising. The browser has added a brand new feature in the latest version of Opera that will block ads from being displayed, via the browser itself, rather than by a third part addon or extension. They also say they are the first browser to add […]
Washington Post Begins Showing Pop-Ups to AdBlock Users
The Washington Post is becoming aggressive with site users who are using ad blockers by serving pop-ups overlayed on top of articles to all those users who have an ad blocker enabled and actively blocking ads on the Washington Post. If you are using either Firefox or Chrome while visiting Washington Post, you will see […]
AdBlock Launches Mobile Browser for Android & iOS
With much of the focus being on the new ad blocking capabilities in iOS 9, AdBlock Plus has upped their game by launching their own mobile browser to tackle the problem of online advertising on mobile devices. While Apple gears up for iOS 9 and media speculate on some apps in private beta, we’ve gone […]
Firefox Pushes Users to Download Firefox for Android
When I updated Firefox this morning, I was presented with an interesting screen once the update was complete – a push to not just download Firefox for Android, but to simply just enter in my email address and they would send it straight to an Android device. This is another push by Firefox to encourage […]
Mozilla Finally to Release iOS Firefox Browser, Could Yahoo Be Why?
Mozilla has been saying for over four years that it would not release an iOS version of Firefox due to Apple’s restrictions on search apps. However, it looks as though Firefox is finally recognizing the need for a Firefox for iOS, according to comments made at an internal Firefox event in Portland on Tuesday. We […]
Latest Firefox Asks Users to Change to Yahoo Search for Default Search Engine
A couple of weeks after Firefox announced that Yahoo would become the default search engine in their web browser, the latest update this morning now has Yahoo as the default search engine. The latest version of Firefox, Firefox 34, makes the change to Yahoo as the default search engine in their search box. If you […]
Implications of Firefox Switching Default Search From Google to Yahoo
When Mozilla Firefox and Yahoo announced that Yahoo would now be the default search engine used by the Firefox browser, it raised some eyebrows. After all, Google is the predominant search engine used throughout most of the world. However, many others have been expecting either Yahoo, Bing, or even Duck Duck Go to swoop […]
Mozilla Firefox Will Display Ads on Homepage & New Tabs
It is the day that many thought would never come – Firefox will begin monetizing their browser by displaying ads on their homepage and in the tiles when a user opens a new browser tab. Mozilla had initially announced the possibility of changing from their previous ad-free stance, but there was plenty of concern over […]