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Countless websites on the web are littered with unwanted content. They could be flashy advertisements, annoying social media buttons, or clunky site elements, all of which make navigation a pain. Worse yet, they take ages to load. However, you don’

Figure this — you are reading a piece of essential news on a website when a pop-up ad shows up on your iPhone or iPad. You close it once thinking it will go away. But alas! The pop-up continues to disturb you repeatedly.

The pop-up ads can be so annoying that it might drive you to punch your phone or the sites and apps that shove them in your face. But don’t worry, you are not alone. Today, you will learn how to set your self free from those joy hijacking monsters.

We need a gallery app to view photos and videos on our Android phones. While most phones come pre-installed with a gallery app, sometimes these apps do not suit our requirements and taste. In such cases, we go to Play Store and download third-party g

Android launchers change the way your phone looks. With the help of launchers, you can customize your device according to your preference. Be it adjusting the icon size, hiding icon labels, or changing the icon itself, launchers let

It’s been a while that I’ve moved from Safari to Chrome on iOS. Google’s browser is pretty good performance-wise, syncs my personal information seamlessly, and features an interface that’s both fun and easy to use. But Chrome’s complete

I understand why developers feel they must show ads in their apps. They work hard to build the perfect app and they have to make a living.

Over the last month, it was discovered that a Russian entity known as the Internet Research Agency, which aimed at amplifying racial and social discrimination, had published ads on Facebook between 2015 and 2017. Now the social networking giant is ta

In a move that will bring more brickbats than roses to them, Adblock Plus announced that they will go ahead with the ‘Acceptable Ads’ platform (AAP) and sell non-obtrusive ads. The aim is to reduce the number of ads that a user sees, rather than

As a blogger myself, I support online ads and strongly feel that some unobtrusive, useful ads that don’t interfere with your online activities are useful for publishers. For most of us here, it’s the only source of daily bread and butter.

We all have those friends on Facebook who have a habit of oversharing things. Be it selfies, check-ins to a place or just some funny cat videos, they don’t think twice before sharing those. A few such friends in your timeline will make a mess out o

In one of India’s top institute for the most gifted students, Mark Zuckerberg chose to host a townhall to field some questions about Facebook. Alumnus of this institute include some big names like Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google) and N. R. Narayana Mu

If you follow the tech news, you might have heard how iOS 9 included a feature that let third-party apps block ads and other trackers in Safari browser. It started a whole big ad blocking debate that we’re not going to get into right now. But what

Recently, web ads have become a hot topic of debate on the internet. They’re poorly designed and poorly coded. They invade your privacy by tracking your every move on the web.

The Facebook app is the devil. And we’re not even going acknowledge Facebook itself. Let’s just focus on the app. A friend of mine who owns the latest iPhone 6 asked me if there’s a Facebook Lite app for iPhone (Facebook released it only for An

Antivirus apps are supposed to prevent attacks, weed out the ones that get you and stop malware and spyware attacks. On PCs, especially on Windows, this is pretty useful. On Android though, it’s a whole different story.

Most of the great Android apps are free. But they do come with a price – ads. There are all kinds of them.

Most of us look at advertisements as an element of distraction and annoyance . But then, they do help us know about what we want to know, isn’t it? When it comes to advertisements on Google websites they make sure that you are shown ads that are t