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reworked its code to circumvent ad-blockers, couching it to users as an educational move. Because they give you tools to manage your experience (within their boundaries), Facebook said, you wouldn’t need your pesky little ad-blocker anymore! Ad-blocking companies responded swiftly and...

Mozilla is planning to end full support for Adobe's Flash software in its Firefox browser from next month. In August, it will block the Flash-powered parts of webpages that were "not essential to the user experience". The browser developer said its action would mean webpages loaded more...

Trying to keep your head above water in an email inbox — it can be a pain in the neck. For the gobs of people using Google’s wildly popular Gmail service, however, the handy Unsubscribe and Block buttons can be used to help manage onslaughts of unwanted email, whether they’re from subscriptions...

Even though millions of Americans are on the federal Do Not Call list to limit unwanted telemarketing calls, and even though it’s illegal for anyone to make a commercial prerecorded robocall to a consumer who hasn’t given their express consent to receive such calls, the problem persists and is...