Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 3.9.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-08-07 12:05 by Thomas Greiner

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This release adds a new snippet and fixes some regressions related to snippets.

Changes

Added override-property-read snippet (core#235).
Fixed: Snippet filters were missing from issue reports (ui#815).
Fixed: Snippets only ran in top-level frame (webext#234).

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The Acceptable Ads Committee wants your input · 2020-07-23 13:59 by Job Plas

Are you an ad-blocker user and have some understanding and interest regarding monetization strategies of online content? Please provide your ideas, feedback and other remarks in this form that the AAC set up to collect ideas, and help decide what is next for the AAC.

Adblock Plus 3.9.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-07-22 17:21 by Thomas Greiner

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This release updates the hide-if-labelled-by snippet to also consider aria-label attributes (core#234).

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Adblock Browser 2.3.0 for Android released · 2020-07-22 10:17 by Jasmin Chee

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Changes

Updated to Chromium 80
Added a preloaded filter list to improve ad blocking user experience
Added instructions guide to set Adblock Browser as default
Fixed crashes caused by pause ad blocking animation
Fixed crashes on launch affecting Huawei MediaPad devices with Android 8
Fixed bugs causing app freezes
Fixed bugs for ad blocking not working

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Adblock Plus 3.9.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-07-21 17:50 by Thomas Greiner

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This release makes the hide-if-labelled-by snippet more resilient (core#228).

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Adblock Plus 3.9.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-07-14 15:53 by Thomas Greiner

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This release fixes an issue that caused Adblock Plus to block page loads for users that have certain non-recommended filter lists installed (core#230).

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New Release: Adblock Plus 3.9 · 2020-07-09 15:32 by Anna Fediaieva

Adblock Plus 3.9 for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge is here!

What has changed?

Adblock Plus 3.9 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-06-30 21:00 by Thomas Greiner

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This release improves on existing features that help inform users about new changes to the extension and about problems it detects. It also includes various improvements for filter authors.

User interface changes

New updates page informing users about latest changes via a notification in the popup (ui#562).
New data corruption page informing users about data corruption via a notification in the popup instead of opening the first-run page (ui#589).
New notification icon design (ui#162, ui#594).
Added ability to share number of blocked ads on social media (ui#485).
Improved design of confirmation dialog that is shown when clicking on a link to add a filter list (ui#595).
Reverted font optimizations that were released in Adblock Plus 3.7 (ui#565).
Fixed: Privacy policy link was missing from settings page (ui#724).

Filter changes

Snippet changes
- Added profile snippet (core#94).
- Added hide-if-matches-xpath snippet (core#178).
- Avoid interference between snippets (core#186).
- Added hide-if-labelled-by snippet (core#189).
- Fixed: Snippets fail when using abort-* snippets (core#221).
- Added json-prune snippet (core#225).
Added element hiding debug mode (core#170, webext#172).
Note: For now, this mode can only be enabled via the browser console (see instructions).
Long filters in developer tools panel are now displayed in a tooltip (ui#301).

Firefox-specific changes

Fixed: Blocked counter regularly resets itself for pinned tabs (webext#190).
Fixed: Black border was shown around icon popup (ui#731).

New update page · 2020-04-20 11:07 by Kathrin Jennewein

Since we launched the first version of Adblock Plus, our clearest priorities have always been user choice and transparency.
We are currently at version 3.8 and every update makes our adblocker even better. That’s the reason why over 100 million users worldwide rely on us to improve their internet experience.

Adblock Plus 3.8.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-04-03 18:47 by Hubert Figuière

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This release improves the snippet hide-if-contains-visible-text to also handle pseudo elements when looking for the text content (core#172).