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This year, you don't have to deal with political ads if you don't want to — on Facebook and Instagram at least. If you'd like your social media feeds to be a little bit less divisive in the lead-up to Election Day, here's how you can disable political ads in your settings.

COVID-19 has left many Americans in dire financial straits. As a result, people are hoping the government will approve a second round of checks to ease the economic burden. There aren't any plans to do so as of yet, but that hasn't stopped scammers from exploiting these hopes to infect unsuspecting victims with malware. Here's how.

In the early days of the internet, you'd have to visit a shady website before worrying about your device getting infected with a virus. Those days are long gone as criminals now have many ways to spread their malicious programs. But, you wouldn't think something as simple as a browser extension could be malicious, right? You'd be wrong!