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Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android

Posted by Soulskill on from the unblocking-the-blocked-blocker dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Adblock Plus has launched Adblock Browser for Android. Currently in beta, the company's first browser was created by taking the open source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus out-of-the-box. The Firefox Sync functionality is disabled, as is the ability to use other addons. "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."

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  1. Auto-play video ads by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone know how to completely block auto-playing videos on Safari? And by completely, I mean prevent them from loading the video file at all. Those stupid things, that I'm never going to watch (fuck you, advertisers), are eating into my monthly cap.

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  2. Re:Resource Hog? by CrashNBrn · · Score: 5, Informative

    uBlock Origin is the original uBlock by gorhill - which was forked from HTTPSwitchboard. Gorhill gave uBlock ownership of uBlock to another team (see uBlock FAQ) , but still maintains his "personal" version... which has over a million users -- compared to the supposed official version uBlock - which has less than 80,000 users.

    Interestingly enough, uMatrix - also by Gorhill is now available on Firefox, as well as Opera and Chrome.

    Oddly enough, uBlock for FireFox doesn't appear to be related to Gorhill nor to the official uBlock team.