An ad blocker that was hosted on the Chrome Web Store falsely claimed its code was written by Raymond Hill. It was, in fact, ...

Brave's initial refactoring effort, as of June 2025, saw the memory footprint shrink from 150 MB to 121 MB. By October 2025, memory usage went from 119 MB to 108 MB. Presently, Brave puts its ...

The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day. Particularly as an onslaught of lazy AI slop subsuming news feeds, the tech is starting to feel ...

A subtle but dangerous memory flaw quietly shipped in Firefox for six months — affecting more than 180 million users — before security researchers uncovered it. The vulnerability allowed attackers to ...

Mozilla is working on a new tool for Firefox called AI Window. This will be an opt-in space for chatting with an AI assistant and getting help from it while browsing. The goal with this project ...

There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today. It turns out that YouTube is working fine. The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update. YouTube has ...

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. October ...

Inevitably, whenever there is a discussion on the internet about how YouTube (or any other website) is choked with ads, someone will say, "Just use an ad blocker." The name seems to say it all. An ad ...

To avoid AdBlock detection on YouTube, stick to reliable and frequently updated ad-blockers, try disabling JavaScript when detection warnings appear, change your DNS ...

Two years ago, Mozilla released Firefox 115, the final version to support Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and a bunch of macOS releases. A year later, Mozilla revealed its plans to extend support for outdated ...

The internet has become absolutely overrun by ads, as they are one of the most direct ways to generate revenue from a wide range of content. This is especially true on YouTube, where just about anyone ...