Adblock Plus and (a little) more

eyeo happily announces: Flattr 2.0 launches to the public today! · 2017-10-24 10:55 by Laura Dornheim

Since we started working with the Flattr team a couple of months ago, our joint mission was to make funding great content as easy as possible. For publishers and content creators but mostly for all of you users out there who want to support the content you enjoy online.

The Flattr relaunch: What to expect! · 2017-10-10 14:00 by Laura Dornheim

*The release is finally happening! On October 24th, we will launch the new version of Flattr for the public. Here is a guide to the new Flattr, for creators, publishers, and contributors. *

Time to brace yourself, this is it. The evolution that aims to become a revolution. We have worked long and hard on relaunching Flattr as a product that has the potential to evolve the internet in just the way we wanted when we first launched Flattr. Our mission has always been the same: We believe creators need and deserve money, but on their own terms.

37,000 fooled after ABP imposter gets in Web Store; how to make sure you’ve got the real ABP · 2017-10-10 12:51 by Ben Williams

A phony Adblock Plus was on offer in the Chrome Web Store long enough for thousands of people to unknowingly get the bogus software. Google has since shut the fakers down. Here’s how to make sure you have the real Adblock Plus if you’re in doubt.

Our new fee structure · 2017-10-06 11:55 by Laura Dornheim

We are changing our fees and we want to do it in the most transparent way. We have split the fee in two: Creators that receive money will be charged a monthly fee of 7.5%. This is our fee for running Flattr. Plus, to start, a payment processing fee of 9%. This is our costs for the payment processing that is carried over to everyone that receives money. This will increase the fee of 10% we had prior to 2016* We would like to explain the reasons for this increase.

Network effect: Flattrs without known receiver · 2017-10-05 13:59 by Laura Dornheim

How the Flattr network effect works, and answers the big question “will people actually pay for content online?”

One of the core problems with Flattr has always been to prove to creators and publishers that people do want support their creations with money. We can claim that is the truth as much as we want, but in the end it’s still just a sales pitch for our product. We needed a way to actually prove it, and now we can.

The Story about the new Flattr – The Flattr enabled list · 2017-09-27 14:00 by Laura Dornheim

Today it’s time for another of our core values when it comes to product design: user control. More specifically, control of what gets flattred. User control is very important to us, so we had to approach it in a serious way. Giving control in a product that is supposed to be automatic is not an easy task. It’s about you trusting the product, but still being able to change how it behaves. Simply put, you should control what sites to use Flattr on.

Consumers again declare independence from relentless Facebook ads · 2017-09-26 17:55 by Ben Williams

Thanks to the open source community making new ad filters, plus an update to ABP for Chrome and Opera, you can block ads on Facebook again … for now. We don’t suspect Facebook will back down from its stance against content blockers — not just ABP, but all of them — and the people who want to use them.

Adblock Plus 1.13.4 for Chrome and Opera released · 2017-09-26 15:39 by Hubert Figuière

Install Adblock Plus 1.13.4 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.13.4 for Opera

This release features improvements to the emulation filters, which allow to block ads on Facebook again. It also includes some bug fixes and changes under the hood.

Changes

Properly handle hiding emulation in dynamically generated content (issue 5000 and 5438).
Properly select the element when selecting pseudo-elements style properties in hiding emulation filters (issue 5339).
Fixed some issue with :-abp-has() (issue 5436 and 5422).
Fixed an issue that caused added custom filters to show up twice in the options (issue 4978).
Improved user notifications (issue 5558, 5460 and 5459).

Kicking out Cryptojack · 2017-09-21 19:05 by Ben Williams

Did you read about how The Pirate Bay was playing around with a tool that would use your CPU as fuel for it to mine cryptocurrency? Maybe you’re cool with that. Probably you’re not. If not, here’s how to prevent it from happening.

Adblock Browser 2.0.0 for iOS released · 2017-09-19 14:28 by Mario König

Install Adblock Browser 2.0.0 for iOS

Changes

Introduced a completely new user interface and an improved user experience. (Issue 4706, Issue 4707, Issue 4736, Issue 4737, Issue 4738, Issue 4739, Issue 4741, Issue 4742, Issue 4743, Issue 4745, Issue 4745, Issue 5122)
Introduced Ghost Mode for private browsing. (Issue 4744)
Fixed minor bugs and introduced stability improvements. (Issue 5485, Issue 5486, Issue 5494, Issue 5532)