NEW YORK — Internet users who install ad-blocking software to escape annoying advertisements may actually be seeing more problematic content than people who browse without any protection at all.

Ad blockers, the digital shields that nearly one billion internet users deploy to protect themselves from intrusive advertising, may be inadvertently exposing their users to more problematic content, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Capturing the immigration debate in political ads this campaign season -- without upsetting Hispanic voters -- is proving tricky for candidates. An ad criticizing Stephen Laffey, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The test couldn't have been much easier — and Facebook still failed. Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent ...

Reports of sexually explicit ads appearing on YouTube have gone up significantly, with users getting increasingly concerned about the platform’s content moderation efforts. A new incident shared on ...

Meta is facing a reckoning over how much of its business depends on advertising that looks legitimate but leads users into ...

The amount of advertising spend wasted on ineffective placements extends beyond spammy made-for-advertising (MFA) websites, according to new research from carbon emissions startup Scope3. The company ...

As it gears up to launch Chrome's built-in ad blocker tomorrow, Google today shared some details about how the new feature will work. First announced in June, the new feature will remove only the most ...

Two major dating app companies have suspended Instagram advertising after tests mimicking the behavior of child predators led to ads being served alongside sexually ...

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income ...