Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Browser 1.1 for Android released · 2015-11-11 07:20 by Felix Dahlke

Changes

Added Baidu as the default search engine for Chinese users (Issue 2988)
Ensured that only release users see about:feedback (Issue 3136)

Smells like censorship, Big Brother · 2015-10-23 19:35 by Ben Williams

Bild.de started blocking users of ad blocking technology recently. We basically said, OK, that’s your right. In the meantime there were discussions in our forum about a way to counter the Bild blockade — these were basically users and forum moderators discussing how they could build a filter, quite independent of ABP or any other affiliation. Just users. Just free speech at its finest. Well, Bild’s publisher asked us to take those discussions down, we declined and just this evening we received a court order forcing us to take them down.

Adblock Browser 1.1 for iOS released · 2015-10-13 11:42 by Felix Dahlke

Install Adblock Browser 1.1 for iOS

Changes

Added Spanish and Portuguese translations
Added Baidu as the default search engine for Chinese users (Issue 2988)
Fixed: Fixed various issues around display of nonintrusive ads (Issue 3032, Issue 3030, Issue 3051)
Fixed: History was not correctly cleared (Issue 3035)
Fixed: The .club top level domain was not recognised (Issue 3101)
Fixed: Fixed various bugs to improve usability (Issue 2987, Issue 3038, Issue 3040, Issue 3041, Issue 3042, Issue 3043, Issue 3045)

From the Manifesto to the Acceptable Ads Board · 2015-10-01 21:48 by Ben Williams

When we wrote the Acceptable Ads Manifesto last year, we were already thinking about how we might improve the Acceptable Ads initiative while stepping back from it as a company. Today, we’re happy to say that we’ve decided to commit to an idea we had long ago: an independent board made up of representatives for users, advertisers and publishers to assume complete control of Acceptable Ads.

Adblock Plus 1.0 for iOS released · 2015-09-30 10:48 by Felix Dahlke

We’re happy to announce that Apple has finally approved the first version of Adblock Plus for iOS – you can now get it on the App Store. (It took forever, we submitted shortly after it became possible to submit iOS 9 apps.)

We’re using the new content blocking API introduced in iOS 9 to provide an ad blocker for Safari on iOS, with a content blocking list generated from EasyList.

The content blocking API does, however, have some limitations that make it difficult to build a decent ad blocker with it. In addition, the inability to do any sort of UI integration makes it difficult to provide the usual Adblock Plus features in a usable way. That’s why we have a second product on iOS: Adblock Browser, a browser with ad blocking built in, which is not subject to the limitations of the content blocking API. I suggest you just try both, and use whatever suits you best.

Axel Springer goes home empty-handed in unsuccessful lawsuit against users’ rights · 2015-09-29 15:18 by Ben Williams

Axel Springer, the multibillion dollar publishing house that just today bought Business Insider for $343m and recently lost a high stakes bidding war to Japan’s largest media company, Nikkei, for rights to purchase the Financial Times, has sued our startup right here in our home town of Cologne, Germany. Once again, the courts ruled in favor of users’ rights, declaring that ad blocking is completely legal.

Adblock Plus 2.6.11 for Firefox released · 2015-09-24 01:07 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.11 for Firefox

Changes

Fixed: Findbar in Filter Preferences was slightly broken when using Firefox 42 and above (issue 2832).
Fixed: Notification pop-up shouldn’t disappear if somebody clicks outside it (issue 3060).
Fixed: Toolbar icon broken in SeaMonkey 2.40 and above (issue 3072).
Added promotional message for Adblock Browser to the first-run page (issue 3031).

Latest Firefox update massively improves Adblock Plus memory usage · 2015-09-23 16:06 by Ben Williams

Mozilla pushed the newest update of its Firefox browser yesterday. This will improve Adblock Plus memory usage for Firefox users immensely and immediately.

Adblock Plus 1.5 for IE released · 2015-09-22 20:43 by Oleksandr Paraska

We are happy to announce a release an updated version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer.

This release includes improvements for the large scale deployments. Here is the list of changes since the last release:

Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Chrome, Opera and Safari release · 2015-09-22 17:23 by Thomas Greiner

Install Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

This update contains mostly improvements to notifications based on feedback from previous tests.

Changes

Added new notification type for normal messages (issue 3022).
Decreased interval between icon animations (issue 3054).
Decreased delay for initial filter download (issue 284).
Added promotional message for Adblock Browser to the first-run page (issue 3031).

Chrome-only changes

Added opt-out button to Chrome desktop notifications (issue 3024).