Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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)

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.