Adblock Plus and (a little) more

How to Stop Ads While You Browse · 2 days ago by Adblock Plus

It’s easy to stop ads and other distractions while you browse the web. Just use Adblock Plus!

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Adblock Plus 4.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 10 days ago by Rowan Deysel

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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.

New snippets, more blocked info, in product messaging fixes.

Changes

  • Updated extension description
  • Fix: Inject IPM-related script on document_start, not _end
  • Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 1.4.0 (release notes)
  • Add number of blocked requests to injection info (abp#1640)

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Adblock Plus 4.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 25 days ago by Ursa Kacar

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This release includes a notification to our Firefox users about recent changes about updates to the extension, improvements to our IPM system, support for CDP functionality and the latest webext engine version

Latest changes

  • Auto open the update campaign for FF users (EE-680)
  • Updated the extension engine dependency to 1.8.0 (EE-632)
  • Support CDP functionality (EE-632)
  • Add special handling to allowlisting API for Softonic domains (EE-625, RL-181)
  • Fix regression introduced by node-fetch upgrade (EE-630)
  • Added further filter list diff update error messages (abp#1678)
  • Introduce IPM delete command (abp#1540)

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Adblock Plus: Best Free Ad Blocker for Chrome · 37 days ago by Adblock Plus

Transform how you browse with Adblock Plus – the best free ad blocker for Chrome.

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Adblock Plus 4.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 45 days ago by Dorel Gabor

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This release introduces support for showing premium features in the pop-up menu. MR

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Adblock Plus 4.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 59 days ago by Thomas Greiner

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This release reintroduces support for third-party filter lists for Manifest v3. It also contains various filter and snippets improvements and fixes.

User interface changes

  • Changed “Donate” text to “Contribute” (abp#1452).
  • Attempted to fix a problem with endless opening of tabs with Adblock Plus update information (abp#1548).
  • Fixed: Clicking the “Add” button after pasting multiple custom filters causes the multiple filter lists to be merged as one (Manifest v3 only) (abp#1672).
  • Fixed: Block element flow got stuck (abp#1686).

Filter changes

Upgraded EWE to 1.6.1 (release notes: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.6.1), which includes the following changes:

  • Added support for third-party filter lists (Manifest v3 only).
  • Added support for wildcard domains in element hiding filters.
  • Added support for “remove” action on elemhide emulation filters.
  • Improved ad-filtering quality on single page websites.
  • Fixed: Unable to unallowlist allowlisted domain from filter list (Manifest v3 only).
  • Fixed: Filter in filter list got removed when same custom filter got removed (Manifest v3 only).
  • Fixed: Last updated column in settings got stuck when updating a filter list (Manifest v3 only).
  • Fixed: Port ignored when using domain wildcards filter.
  • Fixed: Blocked images not hidden on specific cases on Linux.

Snippets changes

Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 1.3.0 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

  • Added support for Acceptable Ads in hide-if-classifies snippet.
  • Added support for filter selectors with whitespaces.
  • Added support for optional filter flags: denoise, failsafe, frameonly, silent
  • Changed mldebug: option to separate filter flag.

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What Can an Ad Blocker for Google Chrome Do? · 65 days ago by Adblock Plus

An ad blocker for Google Chrome gives you a better internet experience so you can focus on what really matters.

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Adblock Plus and the Change to Manifest V3 · 84 days ago by Adblock Plus

The Manifest V3 version of Adblock Plus is here!

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Adblock Plus 4.0 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 88 days ago by Thomas Greiner

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This is the first Adblock Plus version that is based on the Manifest v3 extension format. For now this change only affects users on Chrome. Users on Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera will remain on Manifest v2 for the time being, so this release only includes some minor changes for them. Eventually, we are going to switch over to Manifest v3 on all platforms and we are continuing to monitor and test support for Manifest v3 on those platforms.

Snippets changes

Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 1.2.2 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

  • Changed optional parameter syntax of skip-video snippet.
  • Updated skip-video snippet:
    • Added support for race.
    • Added support for optional named parameters.
    • Added optional parameters:
      • -run-once
      • -stop-on-video-end
      • -wait-until
    • Converted existing optional parameters to optional named parameters:
      • -max-attempts
      • -retry-ms
      • -skip-to

Chrome-specific changes

Known issues due to Manifest v3 limitations

  • The size of the extension package has increased significantly. We are investigating various ways to reduce the size of future Adblock Plus versions.
  • Filter lists from third-party sources have been disabled temporarily and won’t show up in the extension’s settings. Those filter lists will be restored with a subsequent update.
  • Filter lists may fail to update. This problem is more likely to occur for users with many custom filters.
  • Filter lists may fail to install. This problem is more likely to occur for users who have other content-filtering extensions enabled.
  • Custom filters may fail to be added.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Ad Blocker for Firefox · 100 days ago by Adblock Plus

When you use an ad blocker for Firefox, you can enjoy a better online experience with more control over the web.

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