Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus is NOT one of the 16 hacked Chrome extensions · 19 days ago by Rean Marie Thomas
16 Chrome extensions have been hacked putting 3.2 millions users at risk. Adblock Plus has not been affected.
Ad Trackers: What to Know and How to Protect Your Privacy · 58 days ago by Rean Marie Thomas
Adblock Plus blocks more than just ads, it also stops online trackers from collecting personal data.
Unwrap the Adblock Plus 2024 Recap · 103 days ago by Rean Marie Thomas
Find out more about what shaped ad blocking in 2024 and a sneak peek into what’s coming to Adblock Plus Premium in 2025
Shop smart, stay safe: block ads and trackers this holiday season · 149 days ago by Rean Marie Thomas
Use Adblock Plus for safer and more enjoyable holiday shopping by blocking annoying ads, avoiding trackers and malware, and speeding up page load times.
Heads Up: A new way to keep up with Adblock Plus releases! · 157 days ago by Jens Rösler
We are changing the way we share extension updates with you. From now on, we won’t be posting individual release announcements on the blog for every new version. But don’t worry, you won’t miss a thing!
Adblock Plus 4.8 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 165 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.
The highlights of this release is that the popup allowlisting button now does 7
day smart allowlisting. It also contains a potential fix for a bug where some
users are reporting no longer having any subscriptions.
Changes
- We no longer test the MV2 build of our extensions on Chrome 129 and later, since it disables MV2 extensions by defaults.
- Enable user counting functionality
- Updated snippets to 1.6.0
- Upgraded to SDK version 1.15.0
- Updated snippets to 1.7.0
- Changed popup allowlist behaviour to 7 days smart allowlist (EXT-339)
- Attempt to fix issue when no subscriptions are enabled (due to corrupted data), restoring to default subscriptions (EXT-375)
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: safety online in the age of AI · 179 days ago by Durrah Taqiah
AI is one of the most exciting innovations of our time, bringing incredible potential to transform industries, enhance daily life, and solve complex problems. However, as with any powerful tool, we must also be mindful of the risks it poses. D
Adblock Plus 4.7.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 186 days ago by Thomas Greiner
Install Adblock Plus 4.7.1 for Chrome
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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.
This release contains only minor updates and under-the-hood changes.
Adblock Plus 4.7 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 199 days ago by Alexandru Mihai
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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.
Updated snippets version and minor improvements.
Changes
- Upgraded to SDK version 1.12.0
- Updated snippets to 1.5.0
Adblock Plus 4.6 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 214 days ago by Ursa Kacar
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This release updates snippets and brings some under the hood changes and smaller improvements to the extension.
Changes
- Updated list of partners for web APIs
Snippets changes
- Unified the logic to proxy the fetch API, preventing strip-fetch-query-parameter and replace-fetch-response from interfering with each other
- Removed redundant debugLogs in skip-video
- Added to all success debugLogs the snippet name and the passed arguments, so that every success debugLog shows the filter that worked
- Improved the logic that checks whether pseudo elements are visible for hide-if-contains-visible-text
- Improved json-prune: now it can handle both arrays and nested objects with a placeholderNotes for filter developers