Some websites are filled with so much extra stuff that they can become unreadable. There are adverts, crazy background images, ugly fonts and all kinds of other stuff that make websites hard to read. In some cases, they can be downright ugly. Tranquility is an add on for Mozilla Firefox that is designed to clean [...]
If you do not like wasting time watching the ads before the start of any video on YouTube, check out this nifty little extension for Google Chrome that will allow you to skip the ad and jump right to the main video. The extension is totally legit and authentic. It is legal as it does [...]
I’m sure you have come across websites on the Internet that start playing those video ads without your permission, or may be a video sharing site that starts playing videos even before you hit the play button. This can be annoying and FlashControl is a Chrome extension that helps you prevent this from happening on [...]
Even though Google Chrome has a built-in popup blocker, it still misses out on a lot of annoying popups such as alerts and confirmation boxes that may be hidden. Better Popup Blocker is exactly what the name suggests, a tool that blocks popups better than the default tool in Google Chrome. When a popup is [...]
The market for clutter-free reading on the web seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Instapaper and Readability are already fighting for dominance and suddenly we see Evernote jumping into the fray out of nowhere. It has launched a Chrome extension called Clearly that basically does the same thing – clearing the clutter from [...]
Do video ads get in the way of you and your web content? If yes, then thanks to a free to use Firefox add-on called AdBlock Video, you can effectively block them. After installing AdBlock Video, you will be able to block all video ads or control which sites they are allowed on. This way [...]
Reading website content and blogs on the small screen of your mobile phone isn’t usually a smooth experience. If the website has a good mobile version, then all well and good, but if it doesn’t, then reading with all that clutter on a cellphone screen is a pain. So Android users can try out this [...]
It happens more often then we would like, that out of the dozen open tabs, one starts making noises due to an ugly banner ad or some other interactive feature. However, it takes some time and effort to quickly figure out which tab is the culprit. MuteTab solves this problem by letting you quickly mute the tabs. [...]
If you don’t like banner ads on your favorite websites and you want to replace them with something more useful then you might consider trying this tool called Swidget. The term “widget” in its name has probably given you an idea about what it does. It is a browser extension that helps you to replace [...]
There is a search engine for everything so why not ads as well? Moat is a search engine for advertisements that you can use to search for currently running ads for any brand. Simply type in the name of a brand and Moat will display a collection of ads that are running on various websites. [...]