Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.13.4 for Chrome and Opera released · 2017-09-26 15:39 by Hubert Figuière

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This release features improvements to the emulation filters, which allow to block ads on Facebook again. It also includes some bug fixes and changes under the hood.

Changes

Properly handle hiding emulation in dynamically generated content (issue 5000 and 5438).
Properly select the element when selecting pseudo-elements style properties in hiding emulation filters (issue 5339).
Fixed some issue with :-abp-has() (issue 5436 and 5422).
Fixed an issue that caused added custom filters to show up twice in the options (issue 4978).
Improved user notifications (issue 5558, 5460 and 5459).

Adblock Browser 2.0.0 for iOS released · 2017-09-19 14:28 by Mario König

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Changes

Introduced a completely new user interface and an improved user experience. (Issue 4706, Issue 4707, Issue 4736, Issue 4737, Issue 4738, Issue 4739, Issue 4741, Issue 4742, Issue 4743, Issue 4745, Issue 4745, Issue 5122)
Introduced Ghost Mode for private browsing. (Issue 4744)
Fixed minor bugs and introduced stability improvements. (Issue 5485, Issue 5486, Issue 5494, Issue 5532)

Adblock Browser 1.2.0 for Android released · 2017-08-17 09:42 by Diego Lima

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Changes

Improved app look and feel and UX (Issues 2512, 2513, 2606, 3199, 3769, 5005, 5469 and 5470).
Updated ABP extension and improved integration with the app (Issues 2853, 3070, 3247 and 4278).
Improved translations (Issue 5451).
Fixed an issue that would cause the virtual keyboard to not show up (Issue 3831).
Several fixes that improves performance and stability (Issues 3668, 3820, 4889 and 5423).

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.1 released · 2017-07-12 14:04 by Mario König

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Changes

Fixed a bug that caused ABP to freeze when changing filter lists. (Issue 5223)
Implemented underline formatting to Korean. (Issue 5260)
Enlarged descriptions length to avoid clipped texts. (Issue 5243)

Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Chrome and Opera released · 2017-07-12 11:57 by Dave Vandyke

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Install Adblock Plus 1.13.3 for Opera

This release features a number of ad blocking improvements, bug fixes and some changes under the hood.

Changes

Added WebRTC connection blocking support, since those connections were being abused by some websites to serve advertising (issue 4455, 5087 and 5092).
Added support for the new advanced #?# element hiding filter syntax, which includes the new :-abp-has pseudo-class (issue 5094, 5220 and 5117).
Added a workaround to prevent websites from abusing contentWindow and contentDocument APIs to bypass ad blocking (issue 4586 and 5207).
Started allowing web requests not associated with a browser tab to be blocked (issue 5042).
Started using the webRequest API for the blocking of WebSocket connections instead of our workarounds when supported by the browser (issue 5027 and 5130).
Fixed a bug which prevented the “Hide targeted messages?” notifications from being displayed until the browser was restarted (issue 5019 and 5023).
Reduced the number of “Blocked script execution…” warnings that Adblock Plus causes (issue 4494).

Adblock Browser 1.5.3 for iOS released · 2017-07-04 11:05 by Mario König

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Changes

Fixed a bug that caused ad blocking to stop working temporarily when visiting resource-heavy websites. (Issue 5227)
Fixed a bug that caused Adblock Browser to crash under specific circumstances. (Issue 5213)

Adblock Plus 2.9.1 for Firefox released · 2017-06-07 20:11 by Wladimir Palant

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Unfortunately, the Adblock Plus 2.9 release didn’t go as smoothly as we hoped for. Most importantly, the performance degradation caused by the new data storage turned out more severe than we expected, some users were experiencing regular noticeable browser hangs. While the performance of reading and saving Adblock Plus filters hasn’t improved yet, we turned off filter hit counts by default in Adblock Plus 2.9.1 as a first consequence to make sure the data no longer needs to be saved that often (issue 5298). Users who need this functionality can turn it back on by clicking the ABP icon, going into “Options” and checking “Count filter hits.” We will be looking into other ways to improve this, even though the main issue can only be resolved by the Firefox developers.

It also wasn’t noticed before release that the new data storage doesn’t work in Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, so these users ended up with filters being reset on each restart. This has also been resolved in Adblock Plus 2.9.1 (issue 5279, issue 5285), the original data should show up again now. Some users are reporting similar issues in Firefox, a problem we couldn’t reproduce so far. If you are experiencing data loss on Firefox and are willing to let me debug the issue on your computer (via TeamViewer or a similar desktop sharing tool), please let me know in the comments below.

Adblock Plus 2.9 for Firefox released · 2017-05-25 13:34 by Wladimir Palant

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This release lays important groundwork for the Web Extensions migration. The way Adblock Plus stores its data has changed drastically, though for users everything should stay exactly the same (issue 5048). The new location of your filters and subscriptions is the browser-extension-data/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}/storage.js file in your Firefox profile, the same data will be used by the Adblock Plus build based on the Web Extensions platform once it is ready.

Additional changes

The hidden data_directory and please_kill_startup_performance preferences have been removed.
It is now possible to use { and } in CSS property filters (issue 4684).

Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.1.0 released · 2017-05-23 14:17 by Mario König

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Changes

Added support for Nexus devices. (Issue 5192, Issue 5193)
Translated ABP for Samsung Internet Browser into Spanish, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Greek, Russian, French, Italian and Dutch. (Issue 4505, Issue 5232)
Added support for whitelisting websites. (Issue 4769)
Improved user experience by introducing the new Material theme. (Issue 4513)
Fixed multiple minor issues. (Issue 4522, Issue 4602, Issue 4772, Issue 4813, Issue 5100)

Please see this blog post for more details on the newly supported devices.

Adblock Browser 1.5.2 for iOS released · 2017-05-02 10:47 by Mario König

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Changes

Updated the version of Adblock Plus for Chrome/Opera/Safari bundled with Adblock Browser to 1.12.4 (Issue 4554)
Introduced opt-in error reporting in order to improve stability (Issue 4672, Issue 4766)
Fixed popup issue on imgur.com (Issue 4164)
Fixed multiple issues which could potentially lead to crashes (Issue 4874, Issue 4908, Issue 4516)
Fixed multiple minor bugs (Issue 4904, Issue 5152, Issue 4703, Issue 4886, Issue 5029, Issue 5115, Issue 4480, Issue 5065)
Minor UI and usability improvements (Issue 4881, Issue 3653)