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"Computer Act!ve" provides readers with a variety of tips and recommendations from fellow readers. These include adding AllDup to File Explorer's right-click menu to find duplicate files easily, decluttering Google search results by using the Web option, discovering live radio stations on YouTube for continuous music, setting a permanent password for RustDesk for remote desktop control, and filtering comments by user and annotation type in PDFgear software. Additionally, the journal suggests trying the Linux Mint distro for new Linux users as a user-friendly option with preloaded basic software. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses advertising blockers for Internet-driven devices, focusing particularly on Pi-Hole, an open source software program used on Raspberry Pi, a basic computer favored by computer aficionados. The ad blocker program was created by programmer Jacob Salmela and refined by Rochester Institute of Technology student Mark Drobnak to block all advertising on the internet with the exception of the Hulu and YouTube sites. Topics include data sharing, data usage by advertising, European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, and spying in devices including internet-ready televisions, printers, and LED lightbulbs.

The article offers information related to streaming media and online video services, highlighting issues about advertising funded website suffering several revenue loss due to advertisement blockers. It explores several ways and alternative to address such as problem including applying anti-ad blocking technologies.

The article discusses the concept of stitching together ad and primary content into a single stream the most common of which is server-side ad insertion (SSAI). SSAI is described as an ad stitching technique that makes it difficult for ad blocking technologies to differentiate between primary content and ad content. It notes how advanced ad blockers have implemented more sophisticated methods although present SSAI solutions may suffice in terms of retaining partial amount of lost ad revenue.

The article offers information on popularity of advertising (ad)-blocking software and presents study by software company Adobe and ad blocker provider PageFair, which shows that 41 percent of adults younger than 30 years age use these blockers. It offer views of Douglas Knopper, chief executive officer (CEO) of online payment system BitPass, issues faced with micropayments.

The article focuses on concept of adware and role of advertisement (ad) blockers in preventing from appearing on websites. It informs that adverts cause consumers to feel more irritated by computerised marketing as they pay good money for the bandwidth eaten up by adverts. It mentions of some ad blockers such as AdBlock Plus, Bancut and GT-Soft that help blocking adverts.

The article offers information on several ad blockers including the Adblock Plus from Eyeo GmbH, the Ad Muncher from Murray Hurps Software Pty. Ltd., and the Clean YouTube from Phantom Technologies Inc.

This article discusses a research paper on anti-advertising-blocking measures, which references a study published in an issue of "TechCrunch".

The article focuses on the 2016 Recap report by threat management firm RiskIQ which found the proliferation of malicious online advertisements utilized by cybercriminals to potentially exploit millions of people's computers. Topics discussed include malvertising campaigns that used ransomware through a pop-under advertisement, advertisements linked to a scam, and fake software as well as redirects. Ad blocker applications as an effective way to deal with malvertising is also mentioned.

The article discusses the use of content blockers to block political content on the consumer Internet.

The article presents statistics about software that blocks advertisements in browsers or apps, including the percentage of smartphone users around the world that deploy blockers, the number of ad-blocking browsers installed in China, and the number of ad-blocking browsers that can be downloaded on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems.

The article discusses the creation of the L.E.A.N. ads program which stands for Light, Encrypted, Ad choice supported, Noninvasive in order to create lighter ads that respect viewer choices. It cites the AdBlock Plus as the world's most popular blocker which has taken the unusual step of letting publishers pay to get around its own blocking. It suggests a focus on creating lightweight nonintrusive, nonautoplaying ads that people actually want to watch.

The article focuses on the rise of the usage of ad blockers. The software allows users to strip out advertisements and reduce the size of a webpage by between 25% and 40%, making the Internet faster and cheaper. The blocking analytics and other trackers enhances the privacy of the users, and lessen distractions on the page that makes reading easier on the eye.

The article reviews several apps including the Saregama Classical songs app, the F-Secure ADBLOCKER to block advertisement from advertising server and the RingABell reminder app.

The article reports on the increase of users of advertisement blocking software which creates an alarm among the publishers.

The article discusses issues related to the impact of ad blocker on loading web pages. It is stated that the journal examined desktop sites of seven publishers including its own to see how quickly or slowly their home pages load with installation of AdBlock and Adblock Plus, two of the most popular ad blockers and found ambiguous results with some sites indeed loading more quickly when stripped of their ad and others more slowly.