Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday. Monika Bickert, Meta’s VP of content policy, wrote in a blog…
I watch a lot of YouTube. I don’t watch any ads. And I refuse to pay $14 per month for YouTube Premium on principle. Maybe Google can tempt me onto the straight-and-narrow with a cheaper…
Amazon apparently wants to milk Prime Video even further by showing more ads than ever before. According to Ars Technica, Amazon will test how much advertising it can get away with before Prime Video viewers…
YouTube, you’re exhausting. While I spend more time watching YouTube videos than any of the video services I actually pay for, it’s so jam-packed with ads that I’ve spent a lot of energy trying not…
One of the more annoying things about Windows 11 is that the operating system displays ads in the Start menu for promoted apps and services from the Microsoft Store. The good news is, you can…
Microsoft keeps pumping more and more ads into Windows 11. In addition to self-advertising in the Start menu, app recommendations, and pop-ups for Game Pass games, there are now also pop-ups for cloud storage that…
In macOS Sequoia and iOS/iPadOS 18, Apple will introduce a new Safari feature called Distraction Control, which allows users to select an element on a website and make it disappear. It’s not an ad blocker…
You can’t always trust what you see on the internet, even when you’re on a reputable website. At least, not when advertising is involved. Hackers buy ads and use them to trick unsuspecting individuals into…
Apple looks set to join other streaming TV providers by adding a tier to Apple TV+ that includes advertising. What’s less clear is whether customers will have the option to pay less and watch commercials,…
Getty Images Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad…