Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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?
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.
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 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 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.
Discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 · 2014-04-29 16:59 by Wladimir Palant
So far, Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer has been supporting every version Internet Explorer version still in use — including Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. This not only complicated development of Adblock Plus, our website and infrastructure had to support Internet Explorer 6 as well. This meant for example continuing to support the outdated SSLv3 protocol because the more secure TLS 1.0 protocol is turned off by default in Internet Explorer 6. After reviewing the current market share of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 we’ve decided that we should stop supporting them.
Eyetracking study results · 2014-04-29 13:20 by Ben Williams
We just completed a joint study with media technology firm Sticky to measure how effective different types of ads are on different types of sites, in terms of things like brand perception and brand recall. Complete findings are in this Ad Effectiveness study. Have a look at a few examples of heatmap images below (click to expand); you can see all the heatmap images as well.
Sign our Acceptable Ads Manifesto · 2014-04-04 16:05 by Jessica Ciesielski
Yesterday we launched, together with PageFair, Reddit, Customer Commons and the Anti-Advertising Agency our Acceptable Ads Manifesto. The manifesto aims to collect signatures from organizations and internet users who want to make the internet a better place for everyone.
Manifesto URL not working? Here's a temporary alternate · 2014-04-02 17:27 by Job Plas
Today, with four other organizations, we released our Acceptable Ads Manifesto. We’re doing so in order to make our stance on advertising clear and to encourage individuals and organizations to join us in this stance. The five key tenets of it are listed below.