Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 4.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-05-28 17:28 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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