Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 2.6.6 for Firefox released · 2014-11-11 23:59 by Wladimir Palant

There is only one change, Adblock Plus will use a slightly different approach to read files from disk (issue 1510). The reason is a change that Mozilla made for Firefox and that broke Adblock Plus completely in the Firefox nightly builds.

Adblock Plus 2.6.6 for Firefox release candidate · 2014-11-03 13:17 by Wladimir Palant

The current Adblock Plus 2.6.5.3872 for Firefox development build is a release candidate, we plan to release Adblock Plus 2.6.6 next Tuesday (November 11, 2014). There is only one change, Adblock Plus will use a slightly different approach to read files from disk (issue 1510). The reason is a change that Mozilla made for Firefox and that broke Adblock Plus completely in the Firefox nightly builds — this change was temporarily reverted but it will land again.

We don’t expect any issues with this development build. However, please let us know if Adblock Plus suddenly has trouble reading its data (everything empty in Filter Preferences). Also, there is a slight chance of startup performance regressions here.

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Time to unify - We’ve improved our icon and logo · 2014-10-22 16:10 by Sven Hartz

The development of the Adblock Plus logo and icon has over eight years of history. You can find the first Adblock Plus specific logo suggestions here, or some newer ones here. Eight years later, in year 2014, we still have very similar problems as in those days. Since it is also tradition to do this development together with our community, we are excited to do it again to improve the Adblock Plus icon and logo.

I want to separate the community discussion into an icon and a logo discussion, since early discussions have shown it to be two different topics

Adblock Plus 2.6.5 for Firefox released · 2014-10-15 21:01 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.5 for Firefox

Changes

Fixed: Element hiding exceptions are broken by changes in Firefox 34 and Firefox 35 (issue 1241, issue 1381).
Fixed: Blocking via context menu won’t always suggest blocking the most recent request (issue 362).
Fixed: Issue reporter will complain about too many filter lists even when these filter lists are “special” like the anti-adblock list (issue 690).
Fixed: Disabling filters via space bar no longer works in preferences (issue 1129).
Fixed: Sharing Adblock Plus from the first-run page won’t work if the Anti-Social list is enabled (issue 1133).
Fixed: Anti-Adblock warning will sometimes appear on websites without any anti-adblock behavior (issue 1161).
Made $sitekey option behavior more consistent, it can be used similarly to $domain now rather than whitelisting complete websites only (issue 432).

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?

Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox released · 2014-07-22 17:59 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox

Changes

Made sure that data is always written to disk immediately whenever filter hit counts are reset (issue 430).
Fixed: Moving filters with Ctrl-Up/Down doesn’t work in Firefox 30 and above (issue 716).
Fixed: Find functionality in the preferences doesn’t indicate that the search pattern wasn’t found (issue 455).
Fixed: User isn’t informed about anti-adblock warnings on websites producing them (issue 764).
Fixed: Blockable items aren’t refreshed on tab change in SeaMonkey (issue 290).
Fixed: “Disable on this page only” doesn’t work correctly if the address ends with # (issue 580).

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.

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).

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.