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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A team of scientists who were working at CERN develop this email service platform. The main theme behind this idea was to protect the citizens of the world from surveillance. The governments and big fishes keep monitoring your emails, what are you sending and receiving. But for this team, they believe that privacy and secrecy is a sacred thing which must be protected.

Now the booming of the internet is the main reason behind everything that is happening online. As the social giants have policies written in complex form and users just have to accept it in order to use the service. This is a very alarming situation for privacy concerns.

ProtonMail are doing a great job at their end to encrypt every message in order to avoid consequences. Now the ProtonMail has launched the Beta version of the calendar so that everyone can manage their plans privately. ProtonMail is a direct competitor of Gmail and this addition might be the feature that people started ProtonMail instead of relying on Google mail.

Whatever you do the Google is constantly keeping an eye on you, so this ProtonCalendar is a very great opportunity for privacy lovers if they don’t want to tell Google what you are planning to do in the near future by using ProtonCalendar which is available on paid ProtonMail plan.

The majority of the people are concerned over Google’s collection and storing of user data. Not only the public but Google’s own employees also worried about their privacy.

The majority of the big companies use your calendar information in order for target advertising and plan events.

The launch of the beta version of ProtonCalendar started a new discussion about whether Google is still using the calendar to target audience or not.

The company is planning to add feature which allow ProtonMail users to send their calendar invites to non ProtonMail user.

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