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Google tells popup ads to p*** off on mobes

Annoying banners will send phone-friendly sites to hell – aka the second page of search
39 Comments
24 Aug 19:56

North Korea unveils its home-grown Netflix rival – Manbang

Needs work on the branding
31 Comments
23 Aug 21:28

Adblock Plus chalk talk takes stock: Facebook's gonna block our block of their block of our block? Let's rock

Filter-flinger suggests the FTC could even step in
31 Comments
18 Aug 19:22

Cisco joins Microsoft and flings out Skype-friendly collab app

Can't use your favourite OTT voice app? FTFY
18 Aug 16:33

Ad-blocking ‘plateaus’, claims hopeful ad industry

Really?
68 Comments
17 Aug 12:23

'Daddy, what's a Blu-ray disc?'

4K revives forgotten format
126 Comments
15 Aug 08:03

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook ads

This arms race will never end
131 Comments
12 Aug 21:02

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

Web advertising arms race intensifies
152 Comments
11 Aug 17:57

Bleeping Computer countersues Enigma in software review libel row

We bleeping didn't run a bleeping smear campaign, says site, you bleeping ran a bleeping smear campaign!
11 Comments
11 Aug 00:57

Cox stiffed for $25m after letting subscribers pirate music online

ISP didn't do enough to curb illegal downloads, appeal court rules
15 Comments
10 Aug 19:10

Facebook to forcefeed you web ads, whether you like it or not: Ad blocker? Get the Zuck out!

These silos of your personal information don't run themselves for free, folks
134 Comments
09 Aug 19:18

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

Updated Auntie denies it 'sniffs packets' for licence-fee dodging
346 Comments
06 Aug 06:01
Google's Sundar Pichai, speaking at Google I/O 2015

Google, er, Alphabet takes on 10,000 more staff, banks more and more billions from ads

Still totally reliant on advertising
11 Comments
28 Jul 23:51
screenshots from here we go maps app

Here WeGo! Google Maps rival drops Maps branding

Clever, huh?
43 Comments
28 Jul 11:06
Cookie Monster

BBC will ‘retain your viewing history’

Imagine an Auntie who never forgets
99 Comments
25 Jul 09:26

Opinion

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

Review Trek works when the struggle is within, not when the fights are fast and furious

Google on piracy: We really, really care

Comment But we'll only turn on filters if you use our Ad Monopoly
23 Comments
13 Jul 15:08

YouTube sharecroppers start world’s most useless trade union

Comrades! You have nothing to lose but your prerolls and blipverts!
50 Comments
17 Jun 09:58
Woman angrily hangs up phone. Photo via Shutterstock

Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can’t even spel propperlie

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Let’s not get paranoid, here, but...
149 Comments
18 Mar 10:36

News

EFF declares anti-piracy DMCA unconstitutional in new legal showdown

Controversial Section 1201 of US law comes under fire
21 Jul 20:14

Nitwit has fit over twit hit: Troll takes timeless termination terribly

Comment Can Twitter now save itself?
86 Comments
21 Jul 01:18

Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung

Review Trek works when the struggle is within, not when the fights are fast and furious
217 Comments
20 Jul 15:02

Dying! Yahoo! writes! off! half! of! the! $1bn! it! paid! for! Tumblr!

'Still some value there' Gartner analyst tells El Reg as web biz writhes in pain
30 Comments
19 Jul 01:45

Coup-Tube: Turkey blocks social networks amid military takeover

Quick, man the VPNs!
51 Comments
15 Jul 23:48

Ad blockers responsible for rise in upfront TV ad sales, claims report

Web schmeb: Telly is back ad-slingers
83 Comments
15 Jul 15:07

Google on piracy: We really, really care

Comment But we'll only turn on filters if you use our Ad Monopoly
23 Comments
13 Jul 15:08

Spotify, YouTube pay musicians with ever-shrinking buttons

With CD and downloads crashing, is this the end?
39 Comments
12 Jul 12:58

YouTube stars shilled for Warner Bros, screwed up, and now the FTC has written an angry letter

US watchdog channels Hans Blix
16 Comments
12 Jul 00:18

Facebook deleted my post and made me confirm pics of my kids weren't sexually explicit

When automated censorship goes awry
83 Comments
11 Jul 23:27

Ad agency swipes 'unnamed bloggers' for calling out its cynically fake 'save a refugee' app

Hands back ad award, says attacks were unfair
18 Comments
08 Jul 00:56

Philando Castile death-by-cop vid mysteriously vanishes from Facebook

Updated This revolution will not be televised
75 Comments
07 Jul 19:50
Scaremongering image from Wi-Fried

Australia's ABC suspends presenter over 'Wi-Fi is dangerous' claims

Catalyst's Dr Maryanne Demasi off air, programme under review
48 Comments
05 Jul 23:05

Wealthy youngsters more likely to be freetards than anyone else – study

Middle class self-entitled whingers also Remainians? Yarr.
57 Comments
05 Jul 13:57

Judge gives Zuck a US$6 million Brazilian

Facebook funds frozen because WhatsApp won't hand over drug-lords' messages
24 Comments
05 Jul 04:56
Woman with "crying with laughter" emoji for a head... photo by Shutterstock

Here's how to SMS spam Liberal voters and get away with it

Bulk SMS sender, Tails, Tor, and some free WiFi
04 Jul 04:28

ICANN pushes back against brand lobby

Hands were washed long ago
04 Jul 03:05
Twitch Social Eating

Forget YouTube – meet ChewTube: Strangers watching millennials eat

Pic Yeah actually it's probably time to switch off the internet
53 Comments
01 Jul 23:40

FCC starts running from cable box rip-off kill-off

Has the regulator finally bitten off more than it can chew?
Value pack of two tins of Spam

Amazon slashes mobe prices to get more eyes on lockscreen ads

Small crumb: You can pick your own network operator
23 Comments
30 Jun 11:33

Fear and Brexit in Tech City: Digital 'elite' are having a nervous breakdown

Comment Who will pour cash into our disruptive apps?
137 Comments
30 Jun 11:01
Cartoon - Private SNAFU

Peter Gabriel-backed music startup goes titsup, takes £500k of your money with it

CueSongs hits the run-off groove
22 Comments
29 Jun 16:34
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