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Adblock Plus has been helping to improve the web for users since 2007, giving you more control over your internet experience, and creating a better and sustainable online environment. The new release of Adblock Plus 3.5 brings with it serious ... [More] improvements and advantages. In addition to the already fast and battle-tested ad-blocking capabilities of our previous release, one of the most valuable improvements for users is that the new version uses up to 60 percent less CPU, or Central Processing Units. That means that less of your computer’s processing capabilities are needed for blocking ads, resulting in even more speed and surfing ease. [Less]

Install Adblock Plus 3.5 for Chrome Install Adblock Plus 3.5 for Firefox Install Adblock Plus 3.5 for Opera This release comes with significant performance improvements, enhanced support for the $rewrite and $csp filter options, and a new Korean ... [More] filter list. Changes Overall CPU usage is down by ~60% since the last release: Blocking of network requests is now 5 times as fast on average (issues 6994, 7003, 7052, 7089, 7208, 7209, 7232, 7245, 7250 and 7265). Generation of the CSS style sheet for a document is now more than 10 times as fast on average and more than 1,000 times as fast for domains not occurring in any of the user’s filter list subscriptions (i.e. most domains) (issues 6956, 6957, 6989, 6997, 6999 and 7244). Extension badge updates to indicate the number of ads blocked are now at least 5-10% more efficient (issues 7253 and 7257). The $rewrite filter option can now take a value of the format abp-resource: where is the name of a built-in resource (issue 7067). If there are multiple filters with the $csp option that match a URL, now all corresponding CSP headers are injected into the document (issues 7179 and 7243). Added a new Korean filter list (issue 7235). Fixed: Domain-based whitelisting did not work in data: URI frames (issue 6953). Fixed: Element collapsing style sheets could linger after the frame was destroyed (issue 7104). Fixed: Critical notification animation did not stop when dismissed (issue 7077). Chrome/Opera-only changes Stopped using Shadow DOM v0 on older versions of Chromium that do not support user style sheets (issue 6998). Fixed: The “Block element” context menu option disappeared after initial use (issue 6948). Firefox-only changes Fixed: The “Block element” context menu option sometimes did not work on first use (issue 6493). Fixed: The “Block element” option did not appear in the extension popup for some websites (issue 5938). [Less]

Install Adblock Plus for Samsung Internet 1.2.0 Changes Added filter lists for Vietnamese, Polish, Portugese, Spanish, Korean, and Indian languages (Issue 31) Fixed several in in-app strings (Issue 27)

Over the past weeks, there has been an active discussion between developers regarding Chromium’s manifest V3. Much of the discussion focused around the restricting of the webRequestAPI as well as the new declarativeNetrequestAPI. These API’s have the biggest impact on security-, privacy-, ad- and content-blocking extensions.

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.4 for Safari In this update we have fixed the speed and performance issues that were present in the previous version. Changes Performance improvments and bug fixes for filter lists Upgraded whitelist mechanism to work with new filter lists

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.4 for Safari In this update we have fixed the speed and performance issues that were present in the previous version. Changes Performance improvements and bug fixes for filter lists Upgraded whitelist mechanism to work with new filter lists

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Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Chrome Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Firefox Install Adblock Plus 3.4.3 for Opera Changes Added the new abort-current-inline-script snippet for terminating inline scripts containing a given pattern (issue ... [More] 7141). Added the new abort-on-property-write snippet for terminating scripts that assign a value to a given property (issue 7207). Changed name to “Adblock Plus – free ad blocker” (issue 7219). Worked around an issue that caused Firefox to run out of memory and crash (issue 7210). Provided the ABPIndo filter list to Malaysian users (issue 7158). [Less]

Last week Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following about his upcoming challenge for 2019: My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the ... [More] anxieties. Well said, Mark. And yes, we totally agree with you. 2018 has been a pivotal year in tech, and we as an industry have to do everything in our power to win back the trust of the public by working on the right things. And we would love to participate in the dialogue. [Less]

Version 3.4.2 of Adblock Plus blocks Facebook’s Sponsored Posts again, as well as blocking a “first -party cookie” that Facebook has been offering to third-party websites.