Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer released · 2014-08-13 12:14 by Oleksandr Paraska
Install Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer
It has been a long while since our previous release for Internet Explorer. We have been busy tweaking and tuning and fixing different aspects of the Internet Explorer extension for this release. There were quite a few bumps along the way which caused delays. To speedup the development we’ve made a decision to drop support for IE6 and IE7. So currently IE versions 8 to 11 are supported. In case of IE6 and IE7 Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer should still run, with minor glitches though which we are not planning to fix. Luckily, after a bunch of devbuilds we are now ready for a public release.
In this release we’ve resolved a wide range of issues. While you can look up the full list of issued fixed in our issue tracker, the most important changes are:
- Full support of Enhanced Protected Mode
- Acceptable Ads are now supported
- Improved installer. Made it multilingual. And it will now be able to detect if IE is opened and close if needed.
- Fixed incorrect blocking of videos on a wide range of websites
- Fixed a lot of stability issues
- Fixed incorrect blocking of non-ad content
- ABP should not be triggering “Only secure content is displayed” warning message anymore
It is worth mentioning that there are also a few known issues we still need to tackle, most important being “ads on Google Search sometimes aren’t hidden”. This issue can be reproduced no matter whether Acceptable Ads are enabled or disabled, so it may cause some confusion which is why we are planning to fix it ASAP (in the next few weeks).
Adblock Plus and the canvas fingerprinting threat · 2014-07-23 12:21 by Wladimir Palant
ProPublica recently wrote about canvas fingerprinting which supposedly has even more significant privacy implications than cookies. And the worst of it: unlike cookies, canvas fingerprinting cannot be blocked by Adblock Plus!
Those of you who know Adblock Plus are probably saying now: “What, Adblock Plus can block cookies? I never knew that!” And you are right of course — Adblock Plus doesn’t block cookies. So, what is this canvas fingerprinting and what does it have to do with Adblock Plus?
Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox released · 2014-07-22 17:59 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox
Changes
- Made sure that data is always written to disk immediately whenever filter hit counts are reset (issue 430).
- Fixed: Moving filters with Ctrl-Up/Down doesn’t work in Firefox 30 and above (issue 716).
- Fixed: Find functionality in the preferences doesn’t indicate that the search pattern wasn’t found (issue 455).
- Fixed: User isn’t informed about anti-adblock warnings on websites producing them (issue 764).
- Fixed: Blockable items aren’t refreshed on tab change in SeaMonkey (issue 290).
- Fixed: “Disable on this page only” doesn’t work correctly if the address ends with # (issue 580).
About that Facebook tracking thing … · 2014-06-25 17:12 by Ben Williams
You’ve likely heard that Facebook is extending its tracking. On June 12 the company said in a blog post that it would expand its tracking to “include information from some of the websites and apps you use.” This means that if you’re looking around the web for a certain product, Facebook will be there to know that it should target ads related to that product back to you.
Sobre el bloqueo de videos en Atresmedia a usuarios de Adblock Plus [Actualización] · 2014-06-18 17:27 by Peter van Dijk
Ayer, varios de nuestros usuarios se pusieron en contacto con nosotros a través de Twitter para notificarnos que el grupo de comunicación Atresmedia había comenzado a mostrar un mensaje pidiendo a los usuarios de bloqueadores de publicidad que lo desactivaran si querían tener acceso al contenido de cualquiera de sus videos o del reproductor en directo.
Adblock Plus 2.6.3 for Firefox released · 2014-06-03 18:05 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 2.6.3 for Firefox
This is a bugfix release with the focus on stability.
Changes
- Worked around a Firefox bug preventing filters from being saved in Firefox 22 and older on Windows (issue 530).
- Default context menu is no longer overridden on the toolbar icon if a left click would result in the same action already (issue 449).
- Fixed: Adblock Plus toolbar icon appears delayed (issue 293).
- Fixed: Warning shows up in console concerning use of setUserData (only resolved for Firefox 32 and higher, issue 47).
- Fixed: Bogus tooltip on the “Slow” column in Filter Preferences (issue 594).
Adblock Plus 1.8.3 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2014-06-03 17:45 by Thomas Greiner
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.3 for Opera (Opera 17 or higher required)
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.3 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)
Issues like filters being removed on Chrome and settings being reset on Safari led to Adblock Plus not blocking any ads for some users. Starting with this release, the default filter lists will automatically be restored when no filter lists are configured (issue 417). Users who are affected by this will be shown a message and should check their filter list settings.
Chrome/Opera-only changes
- Worked around two bugs in Chrome when using Shadow DOM (issue 450 and issue 498).
- Fixed an issue with blocking ads in situations where we don’t know the top level frame (issue 451).
- Enabled element hiding and collapsing inside inline frames on Chrome 37. A solution for older versions of Chrome and Opera still needs to be implemented (issue 581).
Safari-only changes
- Fixed blocking of elements embedded with a relative URL (issue 573).
On the Adblock Plus memory consumption · 2014-05-15 15:35 by Wladimir Palant
The news is making the rounds that the memory consumption of Adblock Plus can be considerable in some scenarios. While some scenarios mentioned (like the page that requires almost 2 GB of memory) are really edge cases, and unlikely something you will ever see during regular browsing, the issue is certainly real. It isn’t exactly unknown either and we have been looking into ways to resolve it for a while already.
Adblock Plus 1.8.2 for Safari released · 2014-05-14 13:00 by Sebastian Noack
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.2 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)
Just before we released Adblock Plus for Safari last week, we realized a WebKit bug which made Adblock Plus block the content of every web page. However, the workaround we originally implemented only mitigated the issue. While websites weren’t rendered empty anymore, occasionally element hiding still didn’t work. The good news are that we finally identified the WebKit bug responsible, and implemented another workaround that hopefully fixes element hiding once and for all (issue 419).
We also fixed an issue with blocking YouTube video ads. This is the second time since last week that YouTube updated their website, and broke blocking of in-video ads with Adblock Plus for Safari (issue 471). But with this release all ads on YouTube are blocked again.
Adblock Plus 2.6.1 for Firefox released · 2014-05-13 14:57 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 2.6.1 for Firefox
This is a bugfix release with the focus on stability.
Changes
- Fixed: No first-run page appears in Firefox for Android and no filter subscription is selected by default (issue 99).
- Fixed: Opening settings from the first-run page doesn’t work in Firefox for Android (issue 255).
- Fixed:Adblock Warning Removal List gets disabled on update even if the user opted in earlier (issue 424).
- Fixed: Home and End keys don’t work when editing a filter (issue 256).
- Fixed: Wrong filter rule suggested when blocking an address that contains a hash part (issue 247).
- Fixed: Adblock Plus icon reappears after restart if removed from the toolbar in SeaMonkey (issue 186).