Showing posts with label Adblock Plus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adblock Plus. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge

At least Microsoft Edge seems to be spared due to various improvements over Internet Explorer and over time with newer builds of Windows 10 but compared to third-party browsers as we use it today, it is still using the most anticipated feature, the extensions. However, even with extension feature available in Microsoft Edge, chances are, not all common extensions are available for it and trying to apply extensions that are for Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge may seem to be a pointless one for me or something.
Adblock Plus will be available for Microsoft Edge but I think that you're already better off with uBlock or uBlock Origin as Adblock Plus takes up so much hardware resources compared to uBlock series addons. Also, there are security plugins that secure every web browser at the system level regardless of whichever web browser you're using. I never knew about this until there were comments about that on that Neowin article about Adblock Plus for Microsoft Edge. It may seem to be effective at the system level but I don't know how will that work for web browsers that are the Modern apps. Also, the bigger problem takes place in Windows 10 Mobile. Is there an ad-blocking app that blocks adwares at the system level for that OS like Adblock Plus does for Android?

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Google Chrome reportedly bypassing Adblock that forces users to watch video ads

The actual culprit behind this bypassing is the unintended result of fixing the previous security issue and the developers behind the Chromium are already aware of it. The patch is likely to be on the way to Google Chrome 46 and until then, the only way to get around this situation is to disable Adblock, whitelist YouTube or maybe uninstall the YouTube app. Wait, YouTube web app on Chrome? That sounds kind of bullshit to you for your sake! You could have used the YouTube with HTML5 for smoother browsing right now on any web browser. You could have also used the YouTube app on mobile devices which obviously makes any sense.
OK, it may seem that many people were like putting blame to Google for causing this security problem but once again, the actual culprit is the one stated above at the beginning of this post. It may be a minor or normal issue level.

Adblock Plus Browser on IOS and Android

Back then, the Adblock Plus was taken down as it goes against the advertising policy made by Google and especially for the Adblock Plus Browser. You could have installed Adblock Plus by sideloading it on Android and then making manual adjustments to the proxy according to the information from the app to get it activated. From my experience, the networking performance isn't that great with Adblock Plus activated on the Wifi hotspot I'm using. It also has disabled the functionality of certain parts of certain apps in which I can't see the notices, updates or whatever and the worse condition is that some of the secure web browsing proxies require that you have their apps active if you want to browse the net that way like the Orbot for instance, once you have its proxies entered on Firefox, you must have it activated or you can't browse at all.
The release of this web browser on IOS and Android is probably due to the support of extensions in Safari in IOS 9. I don't know if Safari on computers will support the same thing as well. It's a bonus opportunity for Eyeo to port their famous Adblock Plus to IOS 9 Safari web browser in addition to having released Adblock Plus Browser on both IOS and Android.
On Android, I think the best bet will be to have both the sideloading and Google Play Store methods as there may be less guarantee for the Android version to pop up in Play Store.