Adblock Plus launches Adblock Browser: Firefox for Android with built-in ad blocking

VB - VentureBeat ^ | May 20, 2015 1:00 AM | Emil Protalinski

[Utilizer]

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Adblock Plus already has a Firefox for Android add-on, though it requires installing two apps and setting them up. The company also has an Android app that blocks in-app ads, but it only works on Wi-Fi connections and has to be sideloaded and hooked up to a proxy.

In other words, Adblock Plus isn’t easy to use on mobile. Adblock Browser is supposed to change that. “This is the first time we’ve really gone with a solution that is completely ours,” communications manager Ben Williams told VentureBeat.

Adblock Browser wasn’t exactly written from the ground up. The team used the open-source Firefox for Android browser as its base, included Adblock Plus, and disabled Sync while adding support for other add-ons.

Adblock Plus for Android got kicked out of Google Play along with other ad-blocking apps in March 2013 because Google’s developer distribution agreement states apps cannot interfere with the functionality of other apps. Williams thus believes Adblock Browser “should be fine” as it only blocks ads that are shown as you browse the Web.

[Utilizer]

AdblockPlus is already an excellent add-on / extension for browsers.

Now they've taken it one step further...

[max americana]

My top 3 damn favorite add on. Even available on Opera for you FF haters.

[JRandomFreeper]

I wouldn't browse without AdBlock Plus. It makes all the difference. Especially for long YouTube videos with a zillion commercials.

/johnny

[Beowulf9]

Yes. Really works well.

[No!]

Maxthon has had this for some time...

It works well on Maxthon and I’m sure it will too on these late comers :)

[Scutter]

Oh please release this for iOS. Breitbart.com has so loaded their site with annoying, moving ads, that I can’t even read it on my iPad. I start to read and the text moves around for aome stupid ad, or disappears behind some other stupid af.

[Dallas59]

[Utilizer]

Thanks for the belly-laugh, mate! *grin*

Brings back SO many memories of when I used to use a plain browser, in the ‘doze OS no less. :)

I love Adblock Plus, and Ghostery as well. *smile*

[Utilizer]

Just curious; who is Maxthon and why would he care?

[Dallas59]

The 21st century...we talk about words and terms that would amaze our grandparents..

Scene ct from 2001 a Space Odyssey. When Floyd's daughter asks for a Bush baby for her birthday on the video phone. After he "hangs" up, he calls Macy's to order a Bush Baby







OPERATOR Good morning, Macy's.

FLOYD Good morning. I'd like the Vision shopper for the Pet Shop, please.

OPERATOR Just one moment.

12/7/65 b25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ B19 THE PICTURE FLIPS AND WE SEE A WOMAN STANDING IN FORN OF A SPECIALLY- DESIGNED DISPLAY SCREEN

VISION SALES GIRL Good morning, sir, may I help you?

FLOYD Yes, I'd like to buy a bush baby.

VISION SALES GIRL Just a moment, sir.

THE GIRL KEYS SOME INPUTS AND A MOVING PICTURE APPEARS ON THE SCREEN OF A CAGE CONTAINING ABOUT SIX BUSH BABIES, BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED AGAINST A WHITE BACK- GROUND

VISION SALES GIRL Here you are, sir. Here is a lovely assortment of African bush babies. They are twenty Dollars each.

12/7/65 b26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ B19 CONTINUED

FLOYD Yes, well... Pick out a nice one for me, a friendly one, and I'd like it delivered tomorrow.

VISION SALES GIRL Certainly, sir. Just let us have your name and Bank identification for V.P.I., and then give the name and address of the person you'd like the pet delivered to and it will be delivered tomorrow.

SOME TIME DURING THIS CONVERSATION, FLOYD SEE ELENA, SMYSLOV AND THE OTHER TWO RUSSIANS PASS HIS VISION PHONE WINDOW. ELENA TAPS AND MIMES "HELLO", GESTURING TOWARD A TABLE BEHIND FLOYD WHERE THEY ALL SIT DOWN

FLOYD Thank you very much. Floyd, Heywood, R., First National Bank of Washington. Please deliver to Miss Josephine Floyd, 9423 Dupre Avenue, N.W.14.

12/7/65 b27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ B19 CONTINUED

VISION SALES GIRL Thank you very much, sir. It will be delivered tomorrow.

[chuckles]

OK people, this is a fortuitous story for me. I was about to write a post asking how to get my browsing experience back and this comes up. I know you guys probably know all the secrets, but I'm out of the loop. Every site, and I mean every site now has pop ups, automatic starting adds that I can't stop talking, and almost every conceivable pisser offer known to man. I click on a page and an add starts automatically while I'm trying to read the page. Then a pop up page comes up and you click the X to close and a box comes up offering to stay on the page I'm trying my best to close. Then the page underneath starts playing another add. If I finally find the box that is talking, there is NO BUTTONS to stop it, mute it, or pause it. If I go to The Blaze.com, you can hear an add start automatically, but it cuts out every other word or syllable. I don't have any malware or virus according to MalwareBytes and AVG. I have Ghostery and Addblock plus.

I'm hoping someone has something besides ridicule.

[chuckles]

PS. There is also the case where you listen to the ad, then you listen to the video you wanted in the first place, then another add plays automatically and the next video plays that you didn’t ask for, the you finally stop the video to read the comments below and another video starts to play while you are banging on stop. They just play without any clicking and won’t stop until you just kill the whole window. I’ve even gone to the bathroom with the video stopped and 2-3 minutes later, I hear another ad and another video starting back up. It’s just no fun anymore fighting the bloodsucking leeches.

[Utilizer]

Right, well, first off: which browser are you using? I am only familiar with Opera and a bit of Firefox but others might have more knowledge with other browsers. Oh, and which OS as well are you using? Since I am most familiar with it and appreciate it so, perhaps you can try switching to Opera.

In Opera, you can try the ScriptKeeper extension if the standard Adblocker Plus and Ghostery ones don’t help. In extreme cases you can try the Readability extension to view only the text sections of the webpage you are visiting.

In Firefox, try NoScript Security Suite for the same problem(s).

Good luck. :)

[Utilizer]

If you are referring to YouTube vids, in the upper right section of the site there is an “Autoplay” icon that you have to click over to “Off” to disable the next vid from playing. Just once, though, as once you click it the next vids you view will also know not to autoplay.

[W.]

What are all those annoying little graphics?

Because Adblock. And Self-destructing cookies. And Flashblock. And Blur. And Etc... ;)

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I feel sorry for all the people who put up with that crap. I used to be one, myself. Not any more! Now for a cure for those new HTML5 embedded autostart videos. The bastards never stop trying, and I will never patronize an advertiser who uses them.

[taildragger]

"Oh please release this for iOS. Breitbart.com has so loaded their site with annoying, moving ads,"

Have you been to Beck's site? he makes Breitbart look like a pauper. I run "Ghostery" & a Google Blocker, I get over 70 items he is trying to data mine me about. And he has the gall to go on a anti NSA tirade? FWIW, I have tried some of the other top blockers mentioned in this thread, anti-hijacker too. After a while they are doing possibly the same thing and some of these add-on's don't play well with each other and you are then running slower than molasses.

[USS Alaska]

I wouldn't browse without AdBlock Plus.

Correct. I switched back to Firefox from Pale Moon, just to be able to use Adblock plus. What a positive difference it makes!!

[pilipo]

I switched back to Firefox from Pale Moon, just to be able to use Adblock plus.

I use Adblock Plus with Pale Moon. No problems.

[goodnesswins]

Husband complain sabout Becks site and Yahoo...I keep telling him to stay off them...tried adblock too...we use firefox...aagghh

[No!]

Maxthon is the most creative and innovative browser out there and has been for years. They do it first, others copy later.
I thought you guys were cutting edge... :)

http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?/forum/57-maxthon-official-releases-and-betas/