Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 2.0.3 for Safari released · 2018-10-04 10:29 by Dean Murphy

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.3 for Safari

Changes

Updated filter lists

Adblock Plus 2.0.2 for Safari released · 2018-10-02 14:53 by Dean Murphy

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.2 for Safari

Changes

Added logic to update filter lists between app updates
Fixed filter list not loading on initial install in rare instances
Updated filter lists
Updated Deployment target from 10.12 to 10.12.6
Updated on-boarding styling
Updated on-boarding for legacy users to see toolbar installation procedure
Updated Toolbar Extension hover text
Updated Toolbar Extension descrpiton
Updated Toolbar & Content Blocker Extension names

Adblock Plus 2.0.1 for Safari released · 2018-09-19 18:05 by Dean Murphy

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.1 for Safari

Adblock Plus 2.0.1 has been made from the ground up to support Safari’s native content blocking engine, which is required for ad blocking to function as of Safari 12.0.

The main advantage of using the new content blocking APIs are the significant improvements to the speed and performance of ad blocking capabilities. Using these APIs also means there’s still some ground work to be done to improve the accuracy of what’s being blocked. We’ll be working over time to better optimize our filter list generation to provide a great ad blocking experience.

As this is a newly-built native macOS app, some features from the previous version aren’t available just yet but will be re-introduced with ongoing development.

Changes

Added filter list management
Added user controlled whitelisting
Added ‘Help Page’ with support/social links
Added user controlled whitelisting in toolbar extension UI
Added on-boarding instructions
Added automated removal of legacy ABP extension
Fixed whitelist UI not updating in some instances

Changes to parsing metadata from filter lists · 2018-09-17 15:00 by Sebastian Noack

Starting with Adblock Plus 3.4 (and developments builds as of 3.3.2.2135), special comments must be given at the top of the filter list, right below the header, otherwise they will be ignored. Furthermore, the Checksum special comment is no longer supported.

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.6 released · 2018-09-15 10:56 by Mario König

Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.6

Changes

Added support for the following language: Chinese. (Issue 6785)

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Adblock Plus 3.3.2 for Chrome and Opera released · 2018-09-10 20:00 by Manish Jethani

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This release introduces the new hide-if-contains-and-matches-style snippet (issue 6919), which enables filter list authors to tackle a specific technique used by some websites to circumvent ad blocking using invisible ad labels.

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Adblock Plus 3.3.1 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2018-08-30 19:00 by Manish Jethani

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This release adds a couple of improvements to the Adblock Plus snippets.

Changes

Added regular expression support to the hide-if-contains and hide-if-shadow-contains snippets (issue 6847).
Added support to the hide-if-contains snippet for hiding a different ancestor of the element containing the search string (issue 6848).

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Adblock Plus 3.3 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera released · 2018-08-28 15:00 by Manish Jethani

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This release features our own anti-circumvention filter list. It also includes a new experimental feature called “Snippets,” which lets us deploy specialized scripts selectively on one or more domains. We have also taken steps to reduce memory usage and further improve the performance of element hiding emulation.

Changes

Added the new ABP anti-circumvention filter list (issues 6689, 6699 and 6731).
Added basic support for snippets (issues 6781 and 6782).
The $rewrite filter option now accepts a blank value (issue 6787).
Trailing dots in domain names are now always ignored (issue 6690).
Element hiding emulation now correctly qualifies compound selectors in the document’s style sheet (issue 6619).
The :-abp-properties() pseudo-class now responds correctly to dynamic DOM updates (issue 6680).
The $elemhide whitelisting filter option now works for documents with an unknown parent frame (issue 6808).
Fixed the rendering of SVG icons on the options page for mobile (issue 6866).
Reduced the initial memory footprint by ~8% (issues 6727 and 6735).
Further improved the performance of element hiding emulation (issue 6437).
Fixed a compatibility issue on Chrome 49 (issue 6823).

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Newest update to Adblock Plus is a massive strike against ‘anti-adblock’ tools · 2018-08-28 14:15 by Tom Woolford

Adblock Plus 3.3 strikes against anti-ad block companies.

Advantage ABP: Successfully blocking ads on Facebook for 1 year, 1 month and 1 day. · 2018-08-13 17:31 by alumni@eyeo.com

For years, the ad-blocking community and Facebook have been playing a sophisticated, but annoying, game of ping pong. Until now.