Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.0 released · 2017-05-23 14:17 by Mario König
Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.0
Changes
- Added support for Nexus devices. (Issue 5192, Issue 5193)
- Translated ABP for Samsung Internet Browser into Spanish, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Greek, Russian, French, Italian and Dutch. (Issue 4505, Issue 5232)
- Added support for whitelisting websites. (Issue 4769)
- Improved user experience by introducing the new Material theme. (Issue 4513)
- Fixed multiple minor issues. (Issue 4522, Issue 4602, Issue 4772, Issue 4813, Issue 5100)
Please see this blog post for more details on the newly supported devices.
New Flattr extension in closed beta · 2017-05-10 14:00 by Laura Dornheim
First users to test the revolutionary zero-click payment solution
For many months now, we’ve been internally testing the new version of Flattr. The browser extension cleverly understands which content a user really likes, and on what content he / she spends a lot of time. These sites are automatically flattred by our shiny new Flattr extension and content creators / publishers receive a share of the user’s total monthly Flattr budget.
Adblock Browser 1.5.2 for iOS released · 2017-05-02 10:47 by Mario König
Install Adblock Browser 1.5.2 for iOS
Changes
- Updated the version of Adblock Plus for Chrome/Opera/Safari bundled with Adblock Browser to 1.12.4 (Issue 4554)
- Introduced opt-in error reporting in order to improve stability (Issue 4672, Issue 4766)
- Fixed popup issue on imgur.com (Issue 4164)
- Fixed multiple issues which could potentially lead to crashes (Issue 4874, Issue 4908, Issue 4516)
- Fixed multiple minor bugs (Issue 4904, Issue 5152, Issue 4703, Issue 4886, Issue 5029, Issue 5115, Issue 4480, Issue 5065)
- Minor UI and usability improvements (Issue 4881, Issue 3653)
Element Hiding Helper 1.4 released · 2017-04-13 09:41 by Wladimir Palant
With this release Element Hiding Helper becomes fully compatible with multi-process Firefox (issue 2879). We also fixed a long-standing bug: “View source” command was only showing elements but no text nodes (issue 4588).
New filter type option for WebRTC connections · 2017-04-12 12:08 by Dave Vandyke
Starting with Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Chrome and Opera (and development builds as of 1.13.2.1761) the blocking of WebRTC connections is supported. Those connections will have the new request type of “webrtc” and so filters can be made to target them by adding the $webrtc type option.
WebRTC is an experimental browser technology which is supposed to be used for things like video conferencing. Unfortunately despite still being in active development it’s already being misused to serve adverts! Since Chrome does not yet allow WebRTC connections to be blocked by extensions directly (Chromium issue 707683), we’ve had to implement a workaround to achieve this.
Support for other platforms such as Firefox should follow soon, we’ll keep you posted.
The plan towards offering Adblock Plus for Firefox as a Web Extension · 2017-04-12 08:23 by Wladimir Palant
TL;DR: Sometime in autumn this year the current Adblock Plus for Firefox extension is going to be replaced by another, which is more similar to Adblock Plus for Chrome. Brace for impact!
New data storage in Adblock Plus for Firefox · 2017-04-11 11:42 by Wladimir Palant
As of Firefox 57, classic extensions such as the current Adblock Plus for Firefox will no longer load and only Web Extensions will be allowed to continue working. In order to prepare for the transition, starting with Adblock Plus 2.8.2.4244 development build we will use Web Extensions for data storage. Any existing data (this includes both current filters/subscriptions and automatic backups) will be taken over automatically and ideally there should be no visible changes at this point. However, the data will no longer be stored in the adblockplus/patterns.ini file of your Firefox profile but rather in the browser-extension-data/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}/storage.json file.
Please tell us about any data loss issues you encounter after this change. We are moving towards releasing Adblock Plus 2.9 which will start data migration for our entire user base. Note that the format of the Web Extensions storage is still supposed to change which will hopefully make it more robust and performant.
eyeo and Flattr become one · 2017-04-05 13:59 by Laura Dornheim
Today is a very happy day for us and we want to share some great news with you: Two of the most out-of-the-box thinking organizations on the web have joined forces in order to build a sustainable Internet!
Do you #blockbetter? Tell us how and win a smartphone of your choice! · 2017-03-28 14:00 by Peter van Dijk
We know there are a million reasons to use Adblock Plus with the Acceptable Ads program, but what we really want to know is yours!
Adblock Plus 1.13.2 for Chrome and Opera released · 2017-03-21 16:50 by Jon Sonesen
Install Adblock Plus 1.13.2 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.13.2 for Opera
This is an emergency release, fixing a regression and preventing installation on unsupported Opera versions.
Changes
- Fixed a regression with the “Hide targeted messages?” notifications, which prevented the notification text from being displayed (issue 5014).
- Adblock Plus can no longer be installed on Opera 35 and older versions, which are incompatible (issue 4787).