Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Content blocking in Safari 9 and iOS 9: good news? Or the death knell of ad blocking on Safari? · 2015-06-10 16:29 by Sebastian Noack
Apple recently announced a new mechanism for Safari and iOS extensions to block content. In short, either this new API will improve Adblock Plus performance on Safari or it will force us to rely upon an inferior blocking format that would essentially kill ad blocking on Safari.
Another court, another (obvious) win for ad blocking ... and Acceptable Ads too · 2015-05-27 16:16 by Ben Williams
Ad blocking has again been found 100 percent legal, this time according to a Munich regional court which also legitimated our Acceptable Ads initiative. (Just like last time) a group of massive publishers took us to court, and just like last time the court said, “uh, no.”
Adblock Browser is here · 2015-05-20 11:07 by Ben Williams
Today we are pleased to announce Adblock Browser for Android. Our first foray into a more complete mobile ad blocking solution will block annoying ads out of the box and is a great overall browser for your Android device.
adblockplus.org is now powered by a new CMS engine · 2015-05-19 18:07 by Wladimir Palant
Five years ago we started using Anwiki to power adblockplus.org. The most important reason was our need to support translations in a way that could scale for many languages and many translators. Sadly, Anwiki has a number of issues that make working with it unnecessarily hard. We couldn’t find any existing products that do a better job so we decided to roll our own.
Restating the obvious: adblocking declared legal · 2015-04-21 17:25 by Ben Williams
Today, after a four-month trial, a regional court in Hamburg ruled that adblocking is, in fact, perfectly legal. What happened is that a few German publishers took us to court over the right to block ads, but thankfully every user’s right to determine what goes when they surf online was upheld.
A year later, the call for better ads is deafening: the manifesto turns 1 · 2015-03-26 11:32 by Ben Williams
The Acceptable Ads Manifesto is about to celebrate its first birthday! In the past year its membership has more than tripled, and we’re looking forward to more signees who are ready to do the dirty work to get rid of bad ads.
Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android and an apparent change in permissions · 2015-03-12 18:34 by René Jeschke
We have encountered users wondering about an apparently new permission declared by Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android, namely: ‘full permissions to all device features and storage’. Here’s the explanation about this new permission.
Adblock Plus integrated into Maxthon browser · 2015-02-11 09:43 by Job Plas
Adblock Plus and Maxthon committed to a partnership where Adblock Plus has been integrated as a default feature in the popular Maxthon Cloud Browser.
Much ado about ... nothing new? Facebook's terms go into effect today · 2015-01-30 12:28 by Ben Williams
As of today, Facebook users will automatically be subject to more invasive privacy policies under the updated Terms and Conditions. This may be frightening, but their moves to individualize advertising – even outside Facebook – are really nothing new. However, it is now official. If you don’t like it, you can either quit Facebook or, along with checking a few settings, just activate Adbock Plus privacy features.
My, my Myspace? · 2015-01-16 17:50 by Ben Williams
On Wednesday, Venturebeat and others reported that Myspace’s owners, an ad company called Viant, will be using the personal information it has from its over 50 million users to track its users between their online activities and their purchases in the real world.