Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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.

Tags: adblock plus safari releases

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).

Adblock Plus 2.6.1 release candidate available · 2014-05-09 15:38 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus 2.6.0.3812 for Firefox is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 2.6.1, which we currently plan to release next Tuesday (May 13th). We fixed several issues, especially some affecting Adblock Plus on Firefox for Android:

No first-run page appears in Firefox for Android and no filter subscription is selected by default (issue 99).
Opening settings from the first-run page doesn’t work in Firefox for Android (issue 255).
Adblock Warning Removal List gets disabled on update even if the user opted in earlier (issue 424).
Home and End keys don’t work when editing a filter (issue 256).
Wrong filter rule suggested when blocking an address that contains a hash part (issue 247).
Adblock Plus icon reappears after restart if removed from the toolbar in SeaMonkey (issue 186).

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Adblock Plus for Chrome development builds are now in Chrome Web Store · 2014-05-07 18:16 by Wladimir Palant

We implemented automatic upload of the Adblock Plus for Chrome development builds to Chrome Web Store which will become the primary source of the development builds now.

Adblock Plus 1.8.1 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2014-05-07 15:10 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.8.1 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.1 for Opera (Opera 17 or higher required)
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.1 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Unfortunately, YouTube updated their website around the same time we released Adblock Plus for Safari yesterday, and partially broke blocking of videos ads in Safari (issue 438). But the good news are that we were quickly able to fix it, blocking all ads on YouTube again.

This release also fixes a regression with the “Block Element” context menu entry, which was broken in Chrome and Opera (issue 437). And we fixed an issue with the Dutch and Estonian translation which prevented installation from Chrome Web Store depending on selected language.

Adblock Plus for Safari out of beta · 2014-05-06 14:00 by Sebastian Noack

After three and a half months in beta we’re proud to finally release Adblock Plus for Safari.

The lack of a request blocking API was one of the largest challenges we faced while porting Adblock Plus to Safari. This also makes it impossible to block requests initiated by Flash. But we finally found a solution to block all ads, including pre-rolls and overlay ads, in all YouTube videos.