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If you're paying for a VPN already, why not use it to block ads, trackers and malware, too?

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. November 21, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Want to block ads on your ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

Quite a few VPN apps bundle in some form of ad blocking or antimalware features, which are nice perks, but there’s usually a catch: You often don’t get to decide which sites are blocked. Instead, your ...

Using an ad blocker is good for your security, privacy, and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online harms. But as much as ad blockers are great for cleaning up your browsing experience, ...

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 ...

If you came here looking for the “Advertisements” toggle in DuckDuckGo settings — the one every tutorial tells you to turn off — it’s gone. DuckDuckGo quietly removed it from their browser apps in ...