Adblock Plus is a free extension that blocks online advertisements and prevents tracking in all major browsers. The main reason for Adblock Plus is to stop disturbing or you can keep seeing annoying ads while browsing any website. Such ads are from any website, YouTube video ads, banners, pop-ups, background ads, Facebook ads and many more.
This wonderful tool is developed by Wladimir Palant back in 2006, and at that time there was a boom of websites advertisements and hundreds of pop-ups ads would appear on your screen while browsing.
Adblock Plus is downloaded over 250 million times and is available for almost every major browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Explorer and Android Operating System.
There are other additional features of the adblocker which are also very beneficial for internet users like anti-tracking, element hiding and anti-malware controls. If you have everything turned on then it will be very smooth surfing on internet
How does Adblock Plus work?
To block ads through Adblock Plus you need to set filters to give permission which to block and which request to allow. When you enable the filters, it will start blocking automatically annoying ads that keep on coming to your screen.
The advertisements still leave some foot prints behind but thanks to the Adblock Plus feature “element hiding” that removed those elements from the webpage.
How to install Adblock Plus
You can add Adblock Plus to any browser by following the recommended steps.
Adblock Plus for Firefox
If you are a user of Firefox browser then you can go here and click on install button a pop up will open asking for Adblock to install then click “Allow”.
Firefox will ask you that you trust the author? Just click on to Install now to get Adblock Plus on the browser and enjoy uninterrupted surfing.
Adblock Plus for Chrome
You can add Adblock Plus on chrome through two methods. One is from the official site and the second is from chrome’s own website.
Installation through Adblock website
Just go to the Adblock website here and install the Adblock in just 2 steps.
Adblock Plus through the Google Chrome Webstore
Click on here or search on Google “Adblock Plus extension for chrome” it will lead toward chrome web store and you can add AdBlock extension from there.
Adblock Plus for Opera
To install Adblock Plus in the Opera browser just follow the link and click on “Add to Opera”, a pop up will show up and confirm the install.
Adblock Plus on Android
Adblock Plus is also available for our Android devices to secure us from different malware but you need to download it from unknown servers. To give access to download from unknown sources just heads over to the setting>Applications or Security>unknown sources. These steps vary with devices.
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