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

 

[LennyFox]

@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