Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Everyone should be able to enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience. Yet popup ads can be a constant nuisance. Enter popup blockers. These software tools or browser extensions are designed to ...

Starting tomorrow, February 15, Google will begin to block certain types of online ads using a new built-in ad blocking technology it announced last June. Below are the basic things a user needs to ...