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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

YouTube is blocking third-party apps from bypassing or removing ads. The company said it "will take appropriate action to protect our platform, creators, and viewers," which includes preventing apps ...

$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 ...

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 ...