Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Your Data and You · 2018-03-22 14:50 by Tom Woolford

Adblock Plus discusses the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data scandal, and what you should do to keep your data safe.

What you can block with Adblock Plus, part 2 (video) · 2018-02-21 14:00 by Ben Williams

Ever been marooned at an ads conference where people are throwing around words and alphabet soup acronyms that have no meaning? Even if you rather wouldn’t, it’s helpful to understand this jargon so you can understand your surroundings on the web. So today we got some help from Professor Ads, who defined for us just one of these terms … the “interstitial” in a new video.

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.3 released · 2018-02-20 10:20 by Mario König

Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.3

Changes

Implemented feature to update all selected subscriptions manually. (Issue 6066)
Fixed bug that could cause changed settings to not be applied. (Issue 6289)
Adjusted filter list downloads to distinguish between Yandex Browser and Samsung Internet. (Issue 6187)
Updated translations for new features. (Issue 6345, Issue 6335, Issue 6376)

What you can block with Adblock Plus, part 1 · 2018-02-08 14:45 by Ben Williams

For readers of this blog, it’s probably pretty obvious what all you can block with ABP. Or is it? We’d like to provide our users — from those who know it all to all the newbies out there — as well as people who don’t use an ad blocker yet, with a series of blog posts detailing what you can do with ABP. First up, the crux of the biscuit: ADS.

Adblock Plus 1.13.5 for Chrome and Opera released · 2018-01-26 15:20 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.13.5 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.13.5 for Opera

This is an emergency release, addressing a limitation in Chromium which caused pages to appear blank, starting with Google Chrome 66 (and respective future versions of Opera).

After Chromium added support for user style sheets, Adblock Plus detected this feature and began using it automatically. Unfortunately this caused problems, since Chromium did not handle the very long CSS selector lists, that Adblock Plus injects, as well as Firefox does. This caused pages to be rendered blank (issue 6298). With this emergency release we prevent Adblock Plus from using user style sheets for now (issue 5695), but we’ll start using them again soon.

What will Google Chrome’s new ad filter actually block? We investigate... · 2018-01-24 14:00 by Ben Williams

I can’t really count the amount of times people have asked us about how Google’s forthcoming “ad filter” will look. To give you an idea, we investigated what types of ads it will filter, then compared that to ABP with Acceptable Ads turned on. The results confirmed what we thought: it’ll be more like an ad skimmer, letting through about 84 percent of tested ad types.

How cryptojackers maliciously worm their way into ads to turn your computer into their mining zombie · 2018-01-09 20:37 by Ben Williams

Cryptojacking is back. And this time, as opposed to being directly run on particular websites by the owners, it’s attached itself to ads that could end up anywhere … just waiting to suck your computer’s CPU to keep the lights on in its crypto mine. Ever need another reason to use an ad blocker?

Adblock Plus ends 2017 with 15 million new downloads on Android mobile · 2017-12-13 14:37 by Rachel Brochado

Based on a recent report by Berlin-based digital company Contentpass, mobile ad blocking on Samsung devices has grown globally from 1.8 percent to 6.3 percent from October to November this fall. At Adblock Plus, we concur.

Adblock Plus 3.0.2 for Firefox released · 2017-12-12 10:42 by Dave Vandyke

Install Adblock Plus 3.0.2 for Firefox

This release features a number of bug fixes, some of which work around limitations of Firefox’s new Web Extensions API. Additionally, there are some minor improvements to the options page, aiming to address some of the feedback from both our users and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Changes

Fixed the “Block element” tool for Windows users (issues 6053 and 5817, corresponding to Firefox bugs 1418394 and 1418655 respectively).
Fixed blocking of WebRTC connections on websites using CSP security mechanism, works in Firefox 58 and higher now (issue 5953, Firefox bug 1406278).
Made sure that filter list downloads and other requests performed by the extension cannot be blocked (issue 6010).
Fixed subscription link handling for Windows users (issue 5965).
Fixed a bug which caused the mobile options page to be zoomed incorrectly (issue 6046).
Fixed a bug which caused the desktop popup window to open instead of the mobile options page with Firefox 57 for Android and higher (issue 5977).
Improved our Developer Tools panel, fixing a bug which prevented viewing the requested resource (issue 6035) and improving the quality of the icon (issue 6036).
Improved the layout of the options page (issue 5872), fixed the page title (issue 5972) and added a warning for users who subscribe to both the Easy Privacy and Acceptable Ads filter lists (issue 6031).
Firefox 50 is no longer supported, the options page is essentially broken there without a way to fix it (issue 5971, Firefox bug 1209869).

Known issues

Adblock Plus extension might disappear completely, only to be fixed by restarting the browser (Firefox bug 1420145).
In Firefox 57 on Windows, filtering by type in the Developer Tools panel isn’t possible (issue 5988, Firefox bug 1417043).
In Firefox, filtering by search string in the Developer Tools panels isn’t possible (Firefox bug 1366752).
“Block element” option isn’t available for some websites (issue 5938, Firefox bug 1408996).
In Firefox 57 on Windows, there is a delay before the suggested filter appears in the “block element” dialog window (Firefox bug 1418655).
Blocked frames are not hidden (issue 6051, Firefox bug 1418975).
Occasional heavy disk activity (issue 6050, Firefox bug 1277612).
High CPU usage on some websites (issue 6067).

Adblock Browser 1.3.3 for Android released · 2017-12-11 10:39 by Mario König

Install Adblock Browser 1.3.3 for Android

Changes

Adjusted how and how often filter lists are downloaded in case of flaky internet connections. (Issue 6070)
Fixed issue: Ad blocking malfunction for some users. (Issue 6108)

After the previous version update, some users’ ad blocking settings ended up in a non-recoverable state. In order to get this working again, this fix will, when settings are non-recoverable, reset user preferences to default. For help with your ad blocking settings, don’t hesitate to write us at support@adblockplus.org.