Tag: ad

  • New Samsung ad ignores performance benchmarks

    AppleInsider reported that the new Samsung ad attacks iPhone X download speed, ignores performance benchmarks. Regardless, the ad clearly doesn’t step into other, arguably more crucial, areas of phone performance where our tests had iPhone X in a clear lead. Looking at the Geekbench results, iPhone X completely destroys the S9+, especially in single core…

  • Adware vendors buy Chrome extensions to inject ads and malware

    Ars Technica reports on adware vendors buying over Chrome extensions and then injecting ads and malware into the browsers of existing users. Google is aware of the issue, stating that it will be changing its extension policy in June this year to allow only single-purpose extensions. So for the time being, either you live with…