Google Chrome: Block ads, pop-ups, and redirects Google Chrome has a built-in pop-up and ad blocker to deactivate intrusive or misleading ads. Follow the steps below to activate them on your phone.

Ad blocking extensions are shown in the Chrome Web Store. Changes in the way extensions work may make ad blockers, used by more than a third of internet users worldwide, less effective.

If ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game of updates and counter-updates, then Google will force the mouse to slow down. Chrome's "Manifest V3" makes dramatic changes to the Chrome extension platform.

According to recent user reports, uBlock Origin is quickly disappearing from the Chrome Web Store. The official page for the ad-blocking extension now states that it is ...