New Update Adblock Plus updates

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.22 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release resumes support for Firefox, adds support for blocking ads in more languages and introduces differential filter list updates, which are crucial to continue delivering frequent updates to filter lists under Manifest v3. Additionally, it includes further support for users who encounter YouTube’s anti-adblock wall.

User interface changes​

• Added filter list recommendations for Japanese, Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek (ui#1462, ui#1497).
• Show a dialog to help users who encounter YouTube’s anti-ad blocker wall (ui#1513).

Filter changes​

Upgraded EWE to 1.1.1 (release notes: 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1), which includes the following changes:

• Added support for partial filter list updates in preparation for Manifest v3.
• Fixed: CSP filters were ignored, if no domain was included in the filter’s URL pattern (ui#1138).
• Fixed: Element hiding filter hits broke when an invalid CSS selector was used (ui#1471).

Snippet changes​

Upgraded EWE to 1.1.1, which includes the following changes:

• Removed domain requirement from hide-if-classifies snippet.

Firefox-specific changes​

• Added the option to opt-out of data collection for the in-product messaging feature that was introduced in Adblock Plus 3.18 (ui#1416).

Adblock Plus 3.22 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.22.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release fixes a major performance problem that was introduced in Adblock Plus 3.22 (ui#1576).

Adblock Plus 3.22.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.23 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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

This release contains new filtering capabilities and it fixes various problems for users across some languages and websites.

User interface changes​

• Fixed: Extension failed to initialize for browser languages without a recommended filter list (ui#1410).

Filter changes​

Upgraded EWE to 1.2.2 (release notes: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2), which includes the following changes:

• Added domain wildcard syntax for element hiding emulation filters.
• Fixed: Incorrect handling of first-party requests in third-party frames (ui#1578).

Adblock Plus 3.23 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.24 for Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera

Note: This release was initially also intended for Firefox but was rejected by Mozilla’s extension review. Therefore we’re unable to bring this version to Firefox users yet, but we are working on addressing their concerns to bring future updates to Firefox users again soon.

This release includes various improvements to the out-of-the-box ad-filtering experience and it enhances the Premium cookie wall blocking feature.

User interface changes​

• Extended in-product messaging to allow for more targeted messages (ui#1424, ui#1577, ui#1597).
• Made Premium cookie wall blocking feature more capable and versatile (ui#1464, ui#1591).
• Added global filter list recommendation for various languages for which there is no language-specific filter list recommendation yet (ui#1495).
• Added filter list recommendations for Hungarian (ui#1554).

Filter changes​

Upgraded EWE to 1.2.3 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

• Fixed: $document filter option was ineffective for frames (ui#1586).

Adblock Plus 3.24 for Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.24.1 for Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release removes an experimental snippet.

Snippet changes​

Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 1.0.0 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

• Removed experimental simulate-event-poc snippet in favor of simulate-mouse-event.

Adblock Plus 3.24.1 for Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.25 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release includes various bug fixes ahead of the upcoming transition to Manifest v3, as well as additional functionality for existing snippets. It also resumes support for Firefox, bringing the changes from Adblock Plus 3.24 to Firefox users.

User interface changes​

• Extended in-product messaging to allow usage of adblockplus.org subdomains (abp#1485).
• Fixed: Developer tools panel displayed content filters as type OTHER (abp#1626).

Filter changes​

Upgraded @eyeo/webext-ad-filtering-solution to 1.2.4 (release notes), which includes the following changes:

• Various fixes for upcoming transition to Manifest v3.

Snippets changes​

Upgraded to @eyeo/snippets 1.2.1 (release notes: 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1), which includes the following changes:

• Added support for ^^sh^^ and ^^svg^^ CSS selectors to various snippets.
• Added telemetry for machine learning snippets.

Firefox-specific changes​

• Disabled data collection for all Firefox users while we’re working on an opt-out experience that complies with Mozilla’s requirements (abp#1621).

Adblock Plus 3.25 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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[ForgottenSeer 107474]

@Gandalf_The_Grey thanks for posting. AdbloickPlus seems to work hard on Mv3 migration. They are one of the first to implement the new (more genereous) dynamic rule limits

I tested by using old Kees1958 Mv2 as advanced extra filter and it worked

 

[silversurfer]

After long time, I just tried again Adblock Plus. Unfortunately, Block cookie consent pop-ups is as feature available only for Premium version:

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 3.25.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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

This release contains various bug fixes, including ones related to the upcoming transition to Manifest v3.

User interface changes​

• Made various improvements in preparation for the upcoming transition to Manifest v3 (abp#1553, abp#1628, abp#1632).
• Fixed: Premium access got lost when the extension was unable to reach our servers to verify that the Premium license is still active (abp#1575).

Adblock Plus 3.25.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Alexai]

What about MV3? It cans replace uBO?

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

What about MV3? It cans replace uBO?

They are working on it:

This release contains various bug fixes, including ones related to the upcoming transition to Manifest v3.

When MV3 is a reality, we/you can try uBlock Origin Lite, Adblock Plus, AdGuard and/or Ghostery an see which one works best.
They are all working on it and nothing is finished, no need, because MV3 is not a reality yet.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.0 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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​

• Switched to Manifest v3 (initial support, additional fixes and improvements, abp#1651).

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.

Adblock Plus 4.0 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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.

Adblock Plus 4.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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

Adblock Plus 4.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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)

Adblock Plus 4.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

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)

Adblock Plus 4.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.5 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release adds support for Sentry remote logging, Smart Allowlisting, and One Click Allowlisting with Filters expiration.

User interface changes​

• Added support for sending background page errors to Sentry.
• Fixed: Auto open the update campaign for FF users.

Filter changes​

Upgraded EWE to 1.10.0 (release notes: 1.10.0), which includes the following changes:

• Added support for Smart Allowlisting.
• Added support for One Click Allowlisting with Filters expiration.
• Added an opt-out mechanism for the user counting telemetry.
• Fixed: Attempting to add a filter that has already been added no longer throws an error.

Adblock Plus 4.5 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.5.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release contains only minor updates and under-the-hood changes.

Adblock Plus 4.5.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.6 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

This release updates snippets and brings some under the hood changes and smaller improvements to the extension.

Changes

• Updated list of partners for web APIs

Snippets changes

• Unified the logic to proxy the fetch API, preventing strip-fetch-query-parameter and replace-fetch-response from interfering with each other
• Removed redundant debugLogs in skip-video
• Added to all success debugLogs the snippet name and the passed arguments, so that every success debugLog shows the filter that worked
• Improved the logic that checks whether pseudo elements are visible for hide-if-contains-visible-text
• Improved json-prune: now it can handle both arrays and nested objects with a placeholderNotes for filter developers

Adblock Plus 4.6 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Adblock Plus 4.7 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera

Updated snippets version and minor improvements.

Changes

• Upgraded to SDK version 1.12.0
• Updated snippets to 1.5.0

Adblock Plus 4.7 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera | Adblock Plus and (a little) more