Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Ad blocker for Edge: ABP continues to support the browser in its new Chromium-based version · 2020-01-21 15:26 by Matthew Garcia

Adblock Plus was the first ad blocker for Microsoft Edge available to the general public…

No beautiful gift: Tracking, Retargeting and ‘Malvertising’ · 2019-12-20 12:22 by Kathrin Jennewein

Cybercriminals and personal data collectors are swarming in the pre-Christmas season. Users shopping online for gifts at this time become prime targets for tracking, retargeted ads, and malicious malvertising infections.

Facebook’s Christmas Gift: A tool to stalk you all · 2019-12-16 17:11 by Matthew Garcia

More and more users are wondering why they see ads for something they have looked at or searched for on devices that were not connected. Facebook’s feature, called “advanced matching”, is a tracking technology on steroids that is disrespecting users’ privacy…

New Release: Adblock Plus for Safari on iOS · 2019-12-16 16:44 by Matthew Garcia

The newest Adblock Plus for Safari on iOS is here to stop ads from overrunning your Apple devices!

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the rest of the onslaught · 2019-11-29 11:20 by Matthew Garcia

Online advertisers have made this season their hunting ground, with increases in special offers, newsletters, blinking deals: anything to win over the consuming public.

What's all this about filter lists? Adblock Plus 3.7 Release · 2019-10-23 10:46 by Matthew Garcia

Filter lists are an interesting element to the online game that some people may not know a great deal about. This is unfortunate, as they can help users have the internet experience they really want to have.

New Release: Adblock Plus 3.7 · 2019-10-22 20:11 by Susie Concannon

We’re back with a new release! In ABP 3.7, you’ll notice several user interface (UI) updates and overall under the hood improvements, notably increased CPU (Central Processing Unit) performance.

Adblock Plus 3.7 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-10-22 20:00 by Andrea Giammarchi

Install Adblock Plus 3.7 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.7 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.7 for Opera

This release includes various improvements for the settings page and the extension popup. It also drops support for legacy browsers such as Chrome 51 or Opera 38 and below, plus it fixes notifications for Opera browser.

Overall improvements

Settings page
- Improved filters list management (ui#438).
- It is now possible to rate our extension (ui#370).
- Added link to help center (ui#276).
- Users can now provide feedback to us on Acceptable Ads when they opt-out (ui#375).
- Added button to the settings page to select from a list of recommended filter lists (ui#129).
Popup
- Enabling/disabling ad blocking on a website can now be undone without having to close the icon popup or refresh the page (ui#3).
- Notifications can now bring you directly to the settings page (webext#34).
Issue reporter
- Added option for attaching further information to issue reports (ui#152).
Other improvements
- Added new page to show new users what else they can do with Adblock Plus (ui#378).
- Optimized existing font and added fonts for Arabic and Thai languages (ui#115).

Other changes

Dropped support for Chrome 51 (respectively Opera 38) and below (webext#56, webext#81).

Opera-only changes

Fixed: Links in notifications did not work on Opera (webext#60).

Adblock Plus 3.6.3 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-22 15:30 by Hubert Figuière

Install Adblock Plus 3.6.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.6.3 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.6.3 for Opera

Changes

Improved performance of snippet hide-if-contains-image-hash (core#55, core#62).

Adblock Plus 3.6.2 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-09 01:00 by Hubert Figuière

Install Adblock Plus 3.6.2 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.6.2 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.6.2 for Opera

Changes

Added the snippet hide-if-contains-image-hash (issue 7187).
Fixed: The snippet abort-on-property-read couldn’t be used on DOM APIs (core#41).