Adblock Plus and (a little) more
The AdBlockChain and how you can become part of it · 2018-04-01 14:16 by Laura Dornheim
It’s not a secret anymore, every tech expert and presumably all of you know that blockchain is the game-changing technology that will revolutionise almost every industry.
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have become mainstream and some predict they will soon replace traditional, paper-based currencies.
At Adblock Plus, we’ve always been on the forefront of new digital developments.
Malvertising: The problem, and the very obvious solution. · 2018-03-27 15:00 by Tom Woolford
Simple virus checking isn’t enough. Viruses can now hide in ads, and you may not know until it’s too late!
Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.4 released · 2018-03-27 13:44 by Mario König
Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.4
Changes
- Fixed a bug that caused Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet to crash on some devices. (Issue 6454)
Adblock Plus development builds for Firefox moved to new location · 2018-03-24 16:30 by Sebastian Noack
Mozilla is going to drop support for beta versions from AMO, which means we’ll need to go back to distributing the development builds of Adblock Plus for Firefox ourselves. Furthermore, Mozilla will force existing beta users to be automatically updated to the stable version. So if you want to keep using the development build of Adblock Plus for Firefox you’ll need to re-install it from it’s new location.
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.