Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Stopping Netflix autoplay trailers with Adblock Plus · 2018-05-24 15:27 by Tom Woolford
Are autoplay trailers annoying you on Netflix? Check out this handy guide to stopping them with Adblock Plus.
Behind the scenes of Adblock Plus’s new Settings page · 2018-04-25 14:00 by Jeen Low
Today we are happy to share our biggest update yet! With the release of Adblock Plus 3.0.3 on Chrome and Opera brings an all-new Settings page which allows users to control their online browsing even more easily.
German Supreme Court: Ad blocking is legal, Axel Springer lose final appeal · 2018-04-19 17:24 by Tom Woolford
Get antisocial to protect your data. · 2018-04-12 13:50 by Tom Woolford
Adblock Plus shows how to disable social media sharing buttons to stop social networks tracking you off site.
The AdBlockChain and how you can become part of it · 2018-04-01 14:16 by Laura Dornheim
It’s not a secret anymore, every tech expert and presumably all of you know that blockchain is the game-changing technology that will revolutionise almost every industry.
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have become mainstream and some predict they will soon replace traditional, paper-based currencies.
At Adblock Plus, we’ve always been on the forefront of new digital developments.
Malvertising: The problem, and the very obvious solution. · 2018-03-27 15:00 by Tom Woolford
Simple virus checking isn’t enough. Viruses can now hide in ads, and you may not know until it’s too late!
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Your Data and You · 2018-03-22 14:50 by Tom Woolford
Adblock Plus discusses the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data scandal, and what you should do to keep your data safe.
What you can block with Adblock Plus, part 2 (video) · 2018-02-21 14:00 by Ben Williams
Ever been marooned at an ads conference where people are throwing around words and alphabet soup acronyms that have no meaning? Even if you rather wouldn’t, it’s helpful to understand this jargon so you can understand your surroundings on the web. So today we got some help from Professor Ads, who defined for us just one of these terms … the “interstitial” in a new video.
What you can block with Adblock Plus, part 1 · 2018-02-08 14:45 by Ben Williams
For readers of this blog, it’s probably pretty obvious what all you can block with ABP. Or is it? We’d like to provide our users — from those who know it all to all the newbies out there — as well as people who don’t use an ad blocker yet, with a series of blog posts detailing what you can do with ABP. First up, the crux of the biscuit: ADS.
What will Google Chrome’s new ad filter actually block? We investigate... · 2018-01-24 14:00 by Ben Williams
I can’t really count the amount of times people have asked us about how Google’s forthcoming “ad filter” will look. To give you an idea, we investigated what types of ads it will filter, then compared that to ABP with Acceptable Ads turned on. The results confirmed what we thought: it’ll be more like an ad skimmer, letting through about 84 percent of tested ad types.