A new version of the popular adblocking extension Adblock Plus will be released tomorrow for the Firefox web browser. Adblock Plus 2.0 is not only a huge jump in version from version 1.3.10 that is currently offered on Mozilla’s add-on repository, but offers also a fundamental change in program functionality. Back in October we ran [...]

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Google recently introduced What’s Hot On Google+ on their social networking site. The new feature is linked on the Google+ sidebar under What’s Hot and in the user’s stream directly. The most recent message of the What’s Hot message pool is directly displayed in the stream. While it is possible to collapse the feature, it [...]

Categories: Google

Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus, was recently founded by Wladimir Palant, the technologies lead developer, and Till Faida. The move from a community driven part-time project to a company backed project (still community driven) is certainly something that existing and future Adblock Plus users would like to know more about, hence the article. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, The Web

Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on that blocks advertisement, and sometimes other elements, on websites. It supports black- and whitelists and is very flexible. One thing that is missing is an option to generally whitelist all bookmarks. Some users might prefer do whitelist websites on a per-site basis and that is perfectly reasonable. Others prefer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Adblock Plus is probably one of the most popular Firefox extensions of all time. It blocks almost any advertisement on the Internet and is highly effective. Users can add filters to Adblock Plus that whitelist those websites which means that ads on those websites will be shown. This is excellent for webmasters who want to make sure that their websites are displaying the correct ads and visitors who want to give something back to a website that they really like.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox