Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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
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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
- Issue reporter
- Added option for attaching further information to issue reports (ui#152).
- Other improvements
Other changes
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
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Changes
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
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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-readcouldn’t be used on DOM APIs (core#41).
Adblock Plus 3.6.1 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-02 08:30 by Hubert Figuière
Install Adblock Plus 3.6.1 for Chrome
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Install Adblock Plus 3.6.1 for Opera
Changes
- Improved performance of the hide-if-contains-visible-text snippet (core#32).
- Fixed: The ABP Anti-circumvention filter list was not loaded properly (core#45).
New Release: Adblock Plus 3.6 · 2019-07-30 21:15 by Susie Concannon
This release features several all-around UI improvements, fixes and updates to ABP filters, and other minor behind-the-scenes changes.
Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-07-30 20:00 by Thomas Greiner
Install Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome
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This release includes various user interface improvements around managing custom filters, such as the ability to disable individual filters, as well as further performance and stability improvements. It also removes support for the $collapse and $object-subrequest filter options as well as for filter lists that are served over unencrypted HTTP.
User interface changes
- Settings page
- Replaced text area with table for managing custom filters (ui#15, ui#174).
- Removed unnecessary remove option from filter list menu (ui#238).
- Sort whitelisted websites alphabetically (ui#240).
- Fixed: Copyright year in “About Adblock Plus” dialog refers to wrong year (ui#195).
- Fixed: Website menu item was missing for newly added filter lists (ui#237).
- Fixed: Link to Adblock Plus page on Weibo not shown for Chinese users (ui#412).
- Developer tools panel
- Open rewritten URLs in Resources panel (ui#192).
- Log element hiding exception rules (webext#4, issue 6428).
- Added translations (ui#77).
- Issue reporter
- First-run page: Made links more distinct from regular text (ui#250).
- Updated extension description (ui#258).
Filter changes
- Snippet changes
- Allow wrapping of function properties in
abort-on-property-*snippets (issue 7419). - Added
hide-if-contains-visible-textsnippet (issue 7450). - Fixed: Filter is being ignored on subsequent filter that uses
abort-current-inline-scriptsnippet (issue 7373). - Fixed:
strip-fetch-query-parametersnippet did not work in older browsers (issue 7407).
- Allow wrapping of function properties in
- Removed support for
$collapsefilter option (core#1). - Removed support for
$object-subrequestfilter option (core#6). - Added
blank-mp4resource for internal redirects (issue 7440). - Fixed:
:-abp-properties()does not work when tag name is specified (issue 7400). - Fixed:
:-abp-properties()does not work when selector in document ends in a combinator (issue 7428).
Other changes
- Reject downloads over unencrypted HTTP (core#5).
Firefox-only changes
- Fixed: Position of rectangles drawn on screenshot in issue reporter was offset (ui#251).
Is Chrome’s Ad Filter enough? · 2019-07-09 16:30 by Susie Concannon
With all the hype about Chrome and their new Ad Filter, it’s important to ask what it really is, and also how it affects external ad blockers.
One out of every hundred online advertisements is infected with malvertising · 2019-06-21 16:20 by Susie Concannon
The IT company Confiant has reported in their current Q1 2019 Demand Quality Report that almost every hundredth ad impression that users see is infected with malvertising, and that the risk of infection is higher on the weekend and especially on holidays. The basis for these numbers is the result of an analysis of over 100 billion ad impressions during the time period between Q4/2018 and Q1/2019.
Filter list downloads require HTTPS now · 2019-05-24 04:00 by Manish Jethani
Starting with Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera (and development builds as of 3.5.2.2320), the extension will no longer download filter lists over unencrypted HTTP (core#5). Any existing subscriptions with http:// URLs will stop syncing. If you are a filter list maintainer affected by this change, you can migrate any of your current subscribers over in a few simple steps.