#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS INSTALL#
#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS UPDATE#
#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS DRIVER#

Fixed: Overflowing custom filter error messages ( ui#946).Fixed: Settings page did not reflect filter state changes that occurred elsewhere ( ui#866).Removed NEW label from “Recommended filter lists” section ( ui#915).

Updated our terminology to use “allowlist”/“blocklist” instead of “whitelist”/“blacklist” ( ui#827) and made various other wording adjustments ( ui#183, ui#696).

Added more topics to the icon popup footer ( ui#716).

Made custom filter error messages more descriptive ( ui#228).

Added an error message that’s shown when a filter list contains disabled filters, and which allows reenabling them ( ui#210).

Added language filter list recommendations ( ui#9, ui#967, ui#1062).

It also provides them with the option to add that filter list, so that Adblock Plus can block ads specifically for websites with that language. This release contains some general user interface improvements and introduces a feature that notifies users who frequently visit websites in other languages, if they don’t have the necessary filter list installed to block ads on those sites.

#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS UPDATE#

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

#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS INSTALL#

Install Adblock Plus 3.12 for Microsoft Edge It appears that both files were loaded by a script hidden inside the modified jQuery library: jQuery.Adblock Plus and (a little) more Adblock Plus 3.12 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera Let's find out why do they need these files. There was one file added compared to the original code of the AdBlock extension, the coupons.txt file:Īnother thing that caught my eye is that while initializing it was loading a strange image from a third-party domain Okay, that's weird. The following section is full of technical details and if you are not interested, just skip it to the next section where I'll explain how it works in normal language. So I've decided to take a deeper look inside of this so-called 'AdRemover'. For instance, take a look at the stats of one of them: Instead of using tricky names they now spam keywords in the extension description trying to make to the top search results.Īpparently, being in the top is enough to gain trust of casual users. All the extensions I've highlighted are simple rip-offs with a few lines of code and some analytics code added by the 'authors'. The only way of fighting this stuff is to file a trademark violation abuse to Google, and it takes them a few days to take a clone down. That's how users could end up installing some 'Adguard Hardline' or 'Adblock Plus Premium' or something like that. It's been a while since different 'authors' started spamming Chrome WebStore with lazy clones of popular ad blockers (with a few lines of their code on top of them).

What if I told you that thanks to poor Chrome's WebStore moderation the situation is much worse, and in reality over 20,000,000 users are affected and tricked into installing fake malicious ad blockers? Seven months ago big news broke: 37,000 users were tricked into installing a fake Adblock Plus extension. This also explains why 'cloning' wide-spread ad blockers has become so popular among online crooks. Given how popular ad blocking is, it is quite a lot. 20% of users discovered ad blocking by browsing “available browser extensions”.

#GOOGLE CHROME ADBLOCK PLUS DRIVER#

Over 20,000,000 of Chrome Users are Victims of Fake Ad BlockersĪccording to the PageFair 2014 report, Google Chrome is a major driver of adblock growth.

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