How to install adblock without downloading a browser

The following pop-up will show up:. Please confirm by clicking on "Install", and Adblock Plus will block ads in your Opera browser. Adblock Plus is also available for Android devices. It is important to note, that there are a few limitations for non-rooted devices.

To install Adblock Plus, you will need to allow app installation from unknown sources:. In order to download Adblock Plus for Android, access the Android installation page , download the app and open it. As previously described, Adblock Plus requires filterlists to block ads.

By itself, Adblock Plus can only see the webpage you are loading, but has to be "told" by the filterlist which elements to block. When you install Adblock Plus for the first time, it will automatically suggest a filterlist to you based on the language settings of your browser.

There are a two basic lists out there, EasyList and Fanboy's List. These two lists block the ads from the most popular often English websites. However, these lists do not block ads on less popular national websites.

In the case that you, for example, come from Germany, you will have to subscribe to the national German filter list. An overview of all the lists can be found here. It is important to note that you should not add too many filterlists to Adblock Plus. This will slow down the adblocker, therefore, your browsing. As a rule of thumb, it is highly recommended to not use overlapping filterlists e. You can also use filterlists to protect yourself against tracking, malware, social media tracking etc.

Read more about this here. If you want to remove a filterlist again check out this tutorial. Select the list you want to subscribe to, Adblock Plus automatically enable these lists by default. This menu only shows the most popular and recommended filters.

Please go here for more filter lists. To add a filter subscription to Google Chrome, please select "Settings" from the menu in the top right corner. This menu can be found under the small icon with three horizontal bars:. In the drop-down menu, select "Settings". Next, go to the tab "Extensions" on the left side of the screen. This will open the extension window of Google Chrome, where you will find Adblock Plus.

Under the description, you can find the "Options" hyperlink. Please click on this link to open our adblock for Chrome's menu:. In the Adblock Plus Options menu, you can see an overview of the installed and enabled filter lists. To add a new subscription for our adblocker, select "Add filter subscription".

This will open a drop-down menu with the recommended and most popular filterlists. You can find more information on exception rules in Writing Adblock Plus filters.

Here you will find an overview of your currently installed add-ons. Find Adblock Plus here, and simply click on 'Remove' or click the slider. If you want to enable the adblocker on all website again, simply click on the slider again.

It is important to note that Adblock Plus saves your preferences settings, so if you would reinstall ABP in a later stage, you do not have to reconfigure your settings. If you want a clean start with Adblock Plus you should remove the directory 'adblockplus' in your user profile how to find your profile. Also, you should go to about:config and reset all preferences starting with 'extensions.

To disable or reenable our Chrome Adblock Plus version, please go to 'Settings' in the menu in the top right corner. Then, select 'Extensions' on the left side. This will open your Extensions menu. Find Adblock Plus here, select 'Uninstall', and confirm this.

It might happen that Adblock Plus prevents some site from functioning correctly. Usually, this is not a bug in Adblock Plus but a problem with the filters or filter subscription you are using, these filters tell Adblock Plus to block something that shouldn't be blocked. You verify this by temporarily disabling Adblock Plus, if this 'fixes' the problem you are dealing with a bad filter. Please report bad filters by using 'Report issue on this webpage' feature that will automatically collect important data of the current web page:.

Your report will be automatically sent to the maintainers of the filter list that you use. Please have understanding that filter maintainers don't reply to or act upon each of the many reports they receive. Your report will be more likely to be considered if you provide additional information to make the problem more obvious and reproducible. If you found an advertisement that Adblock Plus doesn't block, please check first whether you are using the right filter subscription.

For example, expecting a French filter subscription to block advertisements on a Bulgarian website is unrealistic — you should add a Bulgarian filter subscription for that job. If the filter subscription is right, then the subscription maintainer is probably simply unaware of the problem and you should tell him by using 'Report issue on this webpage' feature that will automatically collect important data of the current web page:. When you install AdBlock for the first time, AdBlock will request some permissions to operate within your browser.

It will look something like this: 'AdBlock can read, modify, and transmit content from all web pages. This could include sensitive information like passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards.

You should be aware of what your browser extensions can do. Ad blockers work by 1 blocking a web page's requests to download ads from the servers that host them and, 2 hiding any ads that can't be blocked. To do that, the extension needs to:. It's important to know that just because AdBlock can see everything on a web page, it doesn't mean it actually does anything with it. The extension does not record your browsing history, capture your passwords or bank account numbers, or secretly collect or change data you submit on a web form.

First steps Solving problems What is Adblock Plus? How does Adblock Plus work? You are now protected against all intrusive ads! For Chrome Google Chrome allows two ways to install our ad block software.

Installation through our website in two steps Simply go to the Chrome installation page and click on the install button to add the ad blocker to your Chrome browser. Click on 'Add' when the following dialog pops-up in your browser: Adblock Plus will be installed into your browser.

You know it has been successful if the following message shows up: Installation through the Google Chrome Webstore in three steps If you wish to install Adblock Plus through the Chrome Webstore please click here to open ABP. The following screen will open our adblock for Chrome: In this screen, please click on the blue 'Add to Chrome' button in the top-right corner.

After clicking this button, the following pop-up will ask you to 'Add' Adblock Plus to your browser: After confirming, you will be protected against all obtrusive online advertising by world's most popular ad blocker!

Some of our favorite content is made possible with ads, and many of our users actively allow ads from creators they like using features available in AdBlock. Our focus is blocking annoying and intrusive ads. Since , we have participated in the Acceptable Ads program , where publishers agree to ensure their ads meet certain criteria. Ads that are deemed non-intrusive are shown by default to AdBlock users.

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