Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 3.11.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2021-11-02 14:33 by Thomas Greiner

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This release adds ad blocking support for more languages and includes some snippet changes.

Filter changes

Upgraded adblockpluscore to 0.4.0 (release notes: 0.3.1, 0.4.0), which includes the following changes:

Recommend Dandelion Sprout’s Nordic Filters filter list for Finnish and Swedish (core#249, core#332).

Snippet changes

Upgraded abp-snippets to 0.3.1 (update notes), which includes the following changes:

Added hide-if-graph-matches snippet.
Removed dir-string snippet.

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The rise and fall of screenshot-based testing · 2021-10-18 15:20 by Kathrin Jennewein

Once upon a time, the team developing the Adblock Plus (ABP) extension decided to add automated end-to-end tests to adblockpluschrome, formerly the main ABP project. The same team had already developed test pages used by manual tests, so why not use them on the automation?

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Adblock Plus 3.11.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2021-09-01 12:29 by Thomas Greiner

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Snippet changes

Upgraded abp-snippets to 0.2.2 (update notes), which includes the following changes:

Added cookie-remover, json-override, prevent-listener and simulate-event-poc snippets.
Fixed regression with abort-current-inline-script snippet.
Fixed a problem with source maps.

Adblock Plus 3.11.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2021-07-27 14:23 by Thomas Greiner

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This release makes upcoming snippets more resilient against anti-ad blocking attempts (ui#966).

Adblock Browser 2.8.2 for Android released · 2021-07-27 14:00 by Pablo Garcia

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Changes

Chromium v90 under the hood
General stability and performance improvements

Adblock Plus 3.11 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2021-05-19 17:19 by Thomas Greiner

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This release adds an easy way to block cookie warnings and push notifications. For advanced users, it also introduces the ability to block requests based on their headers as well as an option for debugging element hiding filters.

Note that the extension is no longer sending GET requests to check for updates for disabled filter lists. Instead, it is sending HEAD requests to save bandwidth while they’re not in use.

User interface changes

Added new filter list recommendations for blocking cookie warnings and push notifications (ui#701, core#248).
Added checkbox for enabling debug element hiding filters mode (ui#608).
Refreshed Adblock Plus logo color (ui#819).
Ignore private tabs when counting blocked requests (ui#851, ui#899).
Hide issue reporter and share buttons for private tabs (ui#870, ui#886).

Filter changes

Upgraded adblockpluscore to 0.3.0 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

Snippet changes
- Removed uabinject-defuser snippet (core#287).
Added support for $header filter option (core#77, ui#898, webext#194).
Update checks for disabled filter lists are now being made using HEAD requests and occur more frequently (core#290).

Chromium-specific changes

Fixed: Unable to print on some pages (webext#287, Chromium bug 1138634).

Firefox-specific changes

Improved compatibility with Firefox Android 79+ (ui#868).

Celebrating Earth Day 2021 · 2021-04-21 16:59 by Susie Concannon

This year’s Earth Day (April 22) motto is climate action, and eyeo, the company behind the Adblock Plus product, is also striving to become more sustainable and keep this earth a liveable place not only on Earth Day but 365 days in the year.

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Adblock Browser 2.7.0 for Android released · 2021-03-17 17:59 by Pablo Garcia

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Changes

Chromium v88 under the hood
General stability and performance improvements, like crashes on Samsung devices running Android 8.

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Adblock Browser 2.6.0 for Android released · 2021-02-12 14:32 by Pablo Garcia

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Changes

Chromium v86 under the hood
General stability and performance improvements
Bottom toolbar removed (originally removed by Chromium team)
No longer supporting Android 4.x

Adblock Plus 3.10.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2021-01-28 18:07 by Thomas Greiner

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Changes

Expanded list of trusted websites that are allowed to use subscribe links (webext#299, webext#308, webext#311).
Fixed: Gave first-run page enough time to load even under slow network conditions (ui#880).

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