Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Browser 1.3.0 for iOS released · 2016-04-12 13:25 by Mario König

Changes

Improved handling for adding, editing and sorting bookmarks (Issue 3288, Issue 3281)
Visible indication of secure connections when connected to websites via https (Issue 3203, Issue 3284)
Added dashboard customization functionality (Issue 3282, Issue 3289)
Integration with 1Password functionality (Issue 3285)
Added minor graphical and usage-specific improvements (Issue 3602, Issue 3633, Issue 3411, Issue 3550, Issue 3643, Issue 3644, Issue 3645, Issue 3647, Issue 3856, Issue 3182, Issue 3201, Issue 3270, Issue 3277, Issue 3390, Issue 3523, Issue 3524, Issue 3804)
Fixed: Fixed various bugs to improve usability (Issue 3529, Issue 3530, Issue 3600, Issue 3601, Issue 3603, Issue 3655, Issue 3360, Issue 3533, Issue 3553, Issue 3604, Issue 3827, Issue 3858, Issue 3217, Issue 3279, Issue 3436, Issue 3477, Issue 3483, Issue 3665, Issue 3734, Issue 3838, Issue 2686, Issue 2794, Issue 3369, Issue 3362, Issue 3730, Issue 3740)

Gimme, gimme, gimme my ABP TV! · 2016-04-01 11:30 by Ben Williams

Great news! We’ve got a new product called ABP TV. It has three chief features that help guard your privacy against the snooping eyes of your smart TV. These swell new features can automagically encrypt your searches into Klingon and even see into the future! On a side note, thank you tech world for creating the fantastic word “automagic”! The English language owes you at least, like, $1.50 for that clever amalgam!(!) And oh, right, happy April 1!

Five and oh … look, another lawsuit upholds users’ rights online · 2016-03-29 21:12 by Ben Williams

Happily, we just won our fifth straight lawsuit in Germany. This one was brought by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest national subscription newspaper. The win once more cemented each user’s right to block ads while also finding that our Acceptable Ads initiative is not damaging, but rather favorable to publishers. The result followed four other victories in German courts.

Adblock Plus is the first ad blocker available for your new Samsung S7 phone · 2016-03-10 14:00 by Ben Williams

Millions of happy Samsung fans will receive their Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge tomorrow, and when they do they will be among the first who can download and use Adblock Plus for Samsung Browser.

Adblock Plus 1.11 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2016-03-08 17:44 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.11 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.11 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.11 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

This release features the new developer tools panel which shows blockable items along with applied filters, and provides an easy way to create new filters for these items, on Chrome and Opera.

Another big change in this release: The “Block element” dialog is no longer injected into the page, but opened as a popup on Chrome and Opera, and as a new tab on Safari. This solved a couple issues, most notably a way that allowed websites to reliably detect whether Adblock Plus is installed.

Other changes

Significant improvements to the popup blocking mechanism on Chrome and Opera, in order to address some corner cases which have been exploited by some websites (issue 3651).
Restricted the data send by the uninstall page. We respect your privacy! (issue 3649)
Fixed: CSS property filters weren’t applied correctly when comma-separated lists of selectors were involved (issue 3654).
Fixed: The “Block element” feature didn’t consider $genericblock exception rules (issue 3620, issue 3636).

Acceptable Ads explained: monetization · 2016-02-25 14:15 by Ben Williams

Here at Adblock Plus we discuss Acceptable Ads constantly. Even if we take every opportunity to talk about it with you, we often forget that you don’t eat, breathe and sleep this stuff. So some aspects of it may seem ambiguous, even opaque. In this blog post we try to clarify one of the thorniest, most complex bits: monetization.

Adblock Plus 2.7.2 for Firefox released · 2016-02-23 16:42 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.7.2 for Firefox

This release works around some obscure Firefox bugs which Adblock Plus has been triggering since Adblock Plus 2.7 release (visible for example as issue 3489, issue 3541, bug 1127744).

Additional changes

Closed a pop-up blocking loophole misused by some websites (issue 3568).
Fixed tooltip display for very long filters (issue 1950).

“Block element” dialog now displayed as a popup window · 2016-02-18 17:14 by Dave Vandyke

We’ve been working on some changes to the “Block element” feature. These changes will be available in Adblock Plus 1.11 for Chrome, Opera and Safari and now in development builds as of 1.10.2.1554.

The “Block element” feature allows you to select elements on the current page and generate filters to block them. After selecting an element the “Block element” dialog is displayed which allows you to confirm the filters that should be added. For Chrome and Opera this dialog is now displayed as a popup window (issue 2426) instead of as part of the website itself. In Safari the dialog will open as a new tab instead. (This is because Safari unfortunately doesn’t provide an equivalent way for us to open popup windows.)

This change should resolve a number of issues with the “Block element” dialog, most importantly one that was being used by websites to reliably detect if Adblock Plus was installed.

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Element Hiding Helper 1.3.7 for Adblock Plus released · 2016-02-16 15:31 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.7 for Adblock Plus

This is a minor update fixing a single issue affecting users of Firefox 45 (currently Beta) and above. A change in Firefox broke switching between Basic and Advanced mode, this has been fixed now.

Adblock Plus 1.10.2 for Safari released · 2016-02-11 15:28 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.10.2 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

We just updated Apple’s certificate used in the Safari builds to make sure that Adblock Plus can still be installed when the old certificate expires. And as a result we had to release a new version. Other than the updated certificate, the build is completely identical to the previous release.

Builds for Chrome and Opera were generated as well. But since there were no changes compared to the previous release, we didn’t upload these to their respective web stores.