No, Chrome isn't killing ad blockers

This November, developers, researchers, browser engineers, and privacy advocates from across the industry will gather in Copenhagen for the Ad Blocker Dev Summit 2026. Attendance is free, and if you're working on ad blocking or privacy, the call for speakers is open too.

Back when Manifest V3 was still just a looming threat, we built one of the first ad blockers designed to work within its restrictions. The experiment revealed just how many challenges MV3 created for developers and why predictions of an ad-blocking apocalypse weren't entirely unfounded.

A university study found that thousands of browser extensions have permissions that could potentially expose sensitive information on web pages, including passwords. The good news: this doesn't automatically make all of them dangerous, but it does make choosing trustworthy extensions more important than ever.

AI-powered ad blockers promise something traditional blockers can't: removing sponsored segments directly from videos. We tested one of the first GPT-powered ad blockers to find out whether AI is ready to take over ad blocking and whether that's even a good idea.