Some Firefox users yesterday started seeing an ad in the desktop version of the browser. It offers users a $20 Amazon gift card in return for booking your next hotel stay via Booking.com. We reached ...

Mozilla is putting the pedal down on its foray into digital ads. In recent weeks, the provider of open-source software has met with a range of ad tech companies in a bid to do more with the audience ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Mozilla made a surprise announcement yesterday: Firefox will soon block web trackers by default. This is a privacy and performance gain that Google is going to have a hard time matching in Chrome. Let ...

Firefox released an Android version of its private browser Firefox Focus today. It’s the software company’s answer to consumers’ desire for greater internet privacy with ad blocking built in at the ...

Integrated advertising leaves no stone unturned. Sometimes it can be fairly innocuous, like when product placement is hamfisted into a movie. Or it can be more invasive, like these Uber tablets that ...

Firefox users are significantly less likely to click on Web site adverts than Microsoft Internet Explorer users, a German advertising technology firm said last week. The firm, Adtech AG, found that ...

Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular Firefox browser extension that blocks text and display ads. “Accessing the content while blocking the ads ...

Remember when Mozilla announced that Firefox would block third-party ad cookies by default? Well, things have changed. Now, when a first-time Firefox user opens up the Web browser, they''ll be ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a growing split over how much room browsers should leave for ad blocking — and Chrome and Firefox have ...

Mozilla today announced an expansion and rebranding of its in-browser advertisements, now dubbed “Suggested Tiles,” that will by default show in the new tab page of all Firefox users. Those who don’t ...