Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Experimental Safari Content Blocking support · 2016-05-18 14:54 by Dave Vandyke
With Safari 9 Apple announced support for Content Blocking Extensions, with the aim of providing a more efficient way for Safari extensions to block adverts. (At the same time they announced the depreciation of the old method Safari extensions use to block adverts, implying it is likely to be removed from future Safari versions.) Since then we have been working on adding experimental Content Blocking support to Adblock Plus (issue 3687). It will be available as of Adblock Plus 1.12 for Safari and is now in the developments builds as of 1.11.0.1602.
Content Blocking can be enabled from the options page for supported versions of Adblock Plus and Safari:
But wait! Before you give it a try, here are some things you should know:
- Safari disables the old method we use to block adverts when Content Blocking is enabled. This means that after disabling Content Blocking you will need to restart Safari.
- To support Content Blocking we translate Adblock Plus filters to Content Blocking rules. While we’re working to improve this it is still a fairly slow process, you may notice a small delay when enabling Content Blocking or when adjusting your filters and subscriptions. (Each change causes the Content Blocking rules to be regenerated.)
- Adblock Plus filters do not translate perfectly to Content Blocking rules, which means that some filters simply won’t work at all and some other filters may not work exactly as before.
- Safari 9 has a limit of 50,000 Content Blocking rules, causing an error to be shown when exceeded: “Extension compilation failed: Too many rules in JSON array.”. If you see this error try disabling some filter list subscriptions. We are working to further compress the Content Blocking rules generated and also hope that Apple will increase this limit in future versions of Safari.
Adblock Browser 1.3.2 for iOS released · 2016-05-12 09:02 by Mario König
Install Adblock Browser 1.3.2 for iOS
Changes
- Fixed a bug which caused multiple UI elements to be unresponsive after a version update (Issue 3811)
- Fixed a bug which caused Adblock Browser to render websites incorrectly under specific circumstances (Issue 3954)
- Fixed a bug which caused Adblock Browser to lose history data and bookmarks during a version update (Issue 3983)
Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge available for Windows Insiders on a Fast Ring · 2016-05-11 11:27 by Sebastian Noack
We have been working closely with Microsoft to bring Adblock Plus to Microsoft Edge, their new web browser. Today, Microsoft pushed an update to the Windows Insider Fast Ring (their pre-release channel), improving support for browser extensions in Microsoft Edge. At the same time we have released an experimental version of Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge that is compatible with this latest Windows Insider Fast Ring update. This is the first ad blocker available for Microsoft Edge.
100 million users, 100 million thank-yous · 2016-05-09 16:47 by Ben Williams
Y’all rule. For real … As our co-founder Till told TechCrunch Disrupt in Brooklyn today, our newest user estimates put us – err, “y’all” – at over 100 million users (“user” = active installation). Thanks to each one! While counts have been relatively stable in countries like Germany and France, we’ve seen tremendous growth elsewhere, like in the US and UK, as people there take back control of their online experience. Once again, thanks … here’s to the next 100 million!
Diagnostics 1.3.2 for Adblock Plus released · 2016-05-03 15:39 by Wladimir Palant
Install Diagnostics 1.3.2 for Adblock Plus
This is a minor update, resolving an issue that might potentially have side-effects during browser startup (issue 2850).
Customizations 1.0.5 for Adblock Plus released · 2016-05-03 15:37 by Wladimir Palant
Install Customizations 1.0.5 for Adblock Plus
This is a minor update, resolving an issue that might potentially have side-effects during browser startup (issue 2850).
Element Hiding Helper 1.3.8 for Adblock Plus released · 2016-05-03 15:34 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.8 for Adblock Plus
This is a minor update, resolving an issue that might potentially have side-effects during browser startup (issue 2850). This also fixes warnings in Browser Console that Element Hiding Helper was producing in newer Firefox versions (issue 3962).
Flattr Plus · 2016-05-03 15:32 by Ben Williams
The web’s been searching for 27 years to find a viable way to let users painlessly fund the content they love. We think we’ve found what we’ve all been looking for: Flattr Plus, a joint product between Flattr and ABP, will allow you to easily and automatically fund the artists, bloggers and musicians you love. Beta sign-up now at the new Flattr Plus website.
Adblock Plus 2.7.3 for Firefox released · 2016-04-27 14:32 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 2.7.3 for Firefox
This release adds support for the experimental CSS properties syntax to Adblock Plus for Firefox (issue 2401, issue 3955). This support isn’t complete yet, most important issue being that hits are not counted for CSS properties filters (issue 3969).
Additional changes
- Fixed issues that Adblock Plus could potentially cause on Firefox startup (issue 2850).
- Some first-run page optimizations (issue 2668, issue 1292, issue 3736, issue 3814).
- Cleaned up internal messaging approach (issue 3499, issue 3851, issue 3853).
Adblock Browser 1.3.1 for iOS released · 2016-04-18 11:30 by Mario König
Install Adblock Browser 1.3.1 for iOS
Changes
- Fixed a bug that caused Adblock Browser to crash under specific circumstances on startup after updating to the latest version 1.3.0 (Issue 3922)