Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Release the Kraken! Adblock Browser 2.0 for iOS emerges from the deep · 2017-09-19 14:00 by Aaron Thornburgh

We’ve been busy building the next release of Adblock Browser for iOS devices. Today, Adblock Browser 2.0 is live in the App Store. Learn about all the new features and why they matter. Or, just visit adblockbrowser.org to download it now.

Web Extensions builds are now the official Adblock Plus for Firefox development builds · 2017-08-24 13:43 by Wladimir Palant

A while ago we announced our plan to migrate to the Web Extensions platform. With the current Firefox nightly builds being incompatible to classic add-ons already, we need to move a bit prematurely. So starting with Adblock Plus 2.99.0.1814 development build, our development builds will be using the Web Extensions platform. If you are on Firefox 57, make sure to install the latest Adblock Plus development build and it will be working again.

Three’s the charm. 3 publishers lose 3 lawsuits on appeal · 2017-08-17 15:09 by Ben Williams

We just received news that the appellate court in Munich, Germany decided in favor of Adblock Plus and eyeo in three separate cases brought by RTL Interactive, ProSiebenSat.1 and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Each case was an appeal, so this is the second time in each case (see here and here for the first times) that the court has ruled against them and in favor of users.

Adblock Browser 1.2.0 for Android released · 2017-08-17 09:42 by Diego Lima

Install Adblock Browser 1.2.0 for Android

Changes

Improved app look and feel and UX (Issues 2512, 2513, 2606, 3199, 3769, 5005, 5469 and 5470).
Updated ABP extension and improved integration with the app (Issues 2853, 3070, 3247 and 4278).
Improved translations (Issue 5451).
Fixed an issue that would cause the virtual keyboard to not show up (Issue 3831).
Several fixes that improves performance and stability (Issues 3668, 3820, 4889 and 5423).

Don't vote for us for SXSW · 2017-08-10 17:06 by Ben Williams

Ha, ha, just playing! We absolutely do want to be on a panel at SXSW this year, and the only way to get on one is by getting enough votes. If you’d like to help us out, please vote here, here and here

The story about the new Flattr - Making your content flattrable · 2017-08-10 14:02 by Laura Dornheim

Let’s go into how ownership recognition works on the new Flattr. When a URL is flattred we need to be able to look up who owns it to transfer money from a consumer to the respective content creator. This post will explain how that works and why we do it this way. Our goal is that every creator knows how to link content with Flattr.

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.1 released · 2017-07-12 14:04 by Mario König

Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.1

Changes

Fixed a bug that caused ABP to freeze when changing filter lists. (Issue 5223)
Implemented underline formatting to Korean. (Issue 5260)
Enlarged descriptions length to avoid clipped texts. (Issue 5243)

Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Chrome and Opera released · 2017-07-12 11:57 by Dave Vandyke

Install Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Opera

This release features a number of ad blocking improvements, bug fixes and some changes under the hood.

Changes

Added WebRTC connection blocking support, since those connections were being abused by some websites to serve advertising (issue 4455, 5087 and 5092).
Added support for the new advanced #?# element hiding filter syntax, which includes the new :-abp-has pseudo-class (issue 5094, 5220 and 5117).
Added a workaround to prevent websites from abusing contentWindow and contentDocument APIs to bypass ad blocking (issue 4586 and 5207).
Started allowing web requests not associated with a browser tab to be blocked (issue 5042).
Started using the webRequest API for the blocking of WebSocket connections instead of our workarounds when supported by the browser (issue 5027 and 5130).
Fixed a bug which prevented the “Hide targeted messages?” notifications from being displayed until the browser was restarted (issue 5019 and 5023).
Reduced the number of “Blocked script execution…” warnings that Adblock Plus causes (issue 4494).

Adblock Browser 1.5.3 for iOS released · 2017-07-04 11:05 by Mario König

Install Adblock Browser 1.5.3 for iOS

Changes

Fixed a bug that caused ad blocking to stop working temporarily when visiting resource-heavy websites. (Issue 5227)
Fixed a bug that caused Adblock Browser to crash under specific circumstances. (Issue 5213)

The semi-authoritative, semi-complete history of the Adblock Plus project · 2017-06-27 18:38 by Wladimir Palant

Which one was first, Adblock or Adblock Plus? If Adblock Plus was created in 2006, how come there was Adblock Plus in 2005 already? The history of the Adblock Plus project isn’t straightforward and I already tried to explain it once. The article titled A not so short history of Adblock would have made a good blog article, except… it got published too early, before the Adblock Plus blog was created. And so it ended up on the website under “Documentation” where it was eventually removed because it wasn’t a good match. Here comes another attempt, looking back at more than ten years of project history.