Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-07-30 20:00 by Thomas Greiner

Install Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.6 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.6 for Opera

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
- Clarified inclusion of screenshot in issue reports for visually impaired users (ui#83).
- Fixed: Button disabled for closing page after sending the issue report (ui#245).
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-text snippet (issue 7450).
- Fixed: Filter is being ignored on subsequent filter that uses abort-current-inline-script snippet (issue 7373).
- Fixed: strip-fetch-query-parameter snippet did not work in older browsers (issue 7407).
Removed support for $collapse filter option (core#1).
Removed support for $object-subrequest filter option (core#6).
Added blank-mp4 resource 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.

Removed support for the $collapse and $object-subrequest filter options · 2019-05-15 04:00 by Sebastian Noack

Starting with Adblock Plus 3.6 (and development builds as of 3.5.2.2320), filters using the $collapse or $object-subrequest filter options will become invalid and have no effect. We advise filter list authors to update their filter lists, removing any $collapse filter option and replacing any $object-subrequest filter option with the $object filter option.

Adblock Plus 2.0.6 for Safari released · 2019-05-13 15:02 by Dean Murphy

Install Adblock Plus for Safari 2.0.6

In this update we have updated the filter lists.

Changes

Updated filter lists

Firefox bug disabled all add-ons - including Adblock Plus · 2019-05-04 10:38 by Laura Dornheim

Since late Friday night, an expired certificate caused all add-ons on Firefox to be disabled.
With Adblock Plus being one of the favorite add-ons for users world-wide, this hits us hard. But we have absolute confidence in the open source community behind Firefox to get this fixed as soon as possible!

Adblock Plus 2.0.5 for Safari released · 2019-04-23 11:59 by Dean Murphy

ABP for Safari Update 2.0.5
Install Adblock Plus for Safari 2.0.5

In this update we have improved the speed and performance issues that were affecting some websites.

Changes

Performance improvements and bug fixes for filter lists

Vulnerability? Fixed! · 2019-04-20 10:22 by Laura Dornheim

Adblock Plus 3.5.2 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2019-04-20 00:00 by Manish Jethani

Install Adblock Plus 3.5.2 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.5.2 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.5.2 for Opera

Changes

The $rewrite filter option now works for internal redirects only (core#4).
Worked around an issue due to missing browser.storage.onChanged events in Firefox 66 (Firefox bug #1541449) causing the options page to not respond to some preference changes (issue 7430).