Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.2.0 released · 2019-03-05 12:10 by Mario König

Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.2.0

Changes

  • Added filter lists for Vietnamese, Polish, Portugese, Spanish, Korean, and Indian languages (Issue 31)
  • Fixed several in in-app strings (Issue 27)

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We are proud to support the blocking community’s feedback to Chromium’s manifest V3 · 2019-02-20 17:41 by Job Plas

Over the past weeks, there has been an active discussion between developers regarding Chromium’s manifest V3. Much of the discussion focused around the restricting of the webRequestAPI as well as the new declarativeNetrequestAPI. These API’s have the biggest impact on security-, privacy-, ad- and content-blocking extensions.

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Adblock Plus 2.0.4 for Safari released · 2019-02-19 09:57 by Dean Murphy


Install Adblock Plus 2.0.4 for Safari

In this update we have fixed the speed and performance issues that were present in the previous version.

Changes

  • Performance improvements and bug fixes for filter lists
  • Upgraded whitelist mechanism to work with new filter lists

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Regarding recent news · 2019-01-24 17:30 by Tom Woolford

Adblock Plus responds to recent news coverage.

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Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2019-01-23 04:00 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Opera

Changes

  • Added the new abort-current-inline-script snippet for terminating inline scripts containing a given pattern (issue 7141).
  • Added the new abort-on-property-write snippet for terminating scripts that assign a value to a given property (issue 7207).
  • Changed name to “Adblock Plus – free ad blocker” (issue 7219).
  • Worked around an issue that caused Firefox to run out of memory and crash (issue 7210).
  • Provided the ABPIndo filter list to Malaysian users (issue 7158).

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Taking up Mark's offer · 2019-01-14 16:59 by Job Plas

Last week Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following about his upcoming challenge for 2019:

My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.

Well said, Mark. And yes, we totally agree with you. 2018 has been a pivotal year in tech, and we as an industry have to do everything in our power to win back the trust of the public by working on the right things. And we would love to participate in the dialogue.

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Adblock Plus 3.4.2 blocks Facebook again! · 2018-12-06 10:12 by Tom Woolford

Version 3.4.2 of Adblock Plus blocks Facebook’s Sponsored Posts again, as well as blocking a “first -party cookie” that Facebook has been offering to third-party websites.

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Adblock Plus 3.4.2 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2018-12-03 17:48 by Dave Vandyke

Install Adblock Plus 3.4.2 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.2 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.2 for Opera

Changes

  • Fixed the “Waiting for Extension Adblock Plus…” problem which some users were experiencing (issue 7065).
  • Added the new hide-if-contains-image snippet (issue 7088).
  • Added the new hide-if-has-and-matches-style snippet (issue 7137).

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Christmas Shopping Without an Ad Blocker Could Cost You · 2018-11-23 17:10 by Susie Concannon

The punches thrown over the last TV on discount will not be the only fight going on this week. The busiest shopping week of the year means an absolute bombardment of ads fighting for your attention.

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Adblock Plus 3.4.1 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2018-11-14 21:00 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 3.4.1 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.1 for Firefox
Install Adblock Plus 3.4.1 for Opera

Changes

  • Added the new abort-on-property-read snippet (issue 6969).
  • Fixed a bug where an issue reporter screenshot was submitted without annotations under certain circumstances (issue 7100).

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