
Notably, Microsoft didn't broadcast the news that it had integrated Adblock Plus with Edge on Android and iOS. Google introduced a form of ad blocking in Chrome earlier this year - an effort that purports to scrub the most annoying ads - and Mozilla has laid out a timetable for its own stab at deleting ads that will reach users in September or October. The move puts Microsoft in the same category as Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox, two others of the Big Four browsers with ad-blocking technology already baked in or planned for this year. Microsoft declined to answer questions about the partnership and, when asked whether it plans something similar for Windows 10's browser, would only say that an Adblocker Plus extension is available for that version. This is the first time Microsoft has added a web ad blocker to any of its browsers, although Adblock Plus - and a multitude of rivals - have been available for years as browser add-ons for Internet Explorer as well as Edge. Change this any time in Settings," reads text displayed in the iOS edition of Edge once Adblock Plus has been engaged. In both, the setting is accessible from Settings/Content blockers once within the browser. This probably points to a bug in ABP for Edge, or a limitation of Edge, because the special class-selector syntax should be more effective than an attribute selector, because it has higher specificity.The in-Edge ad-blocker is disabled by default in both the Android and iOS versions, requiring the user to manually switch it on. specific hiding rules): the domain specifier, the element selector, and the attribute selector as opposed to the special class-selector syntax. lang=matchĪnyway, a similar filter worked, even in the local-locale version of the Bing search for lol: #liĪll elements of this filter need to be there (maybe something about specificity, or the different treatment of generic vs.


It did hide the ad in both Chrome and Edge when using this page from a custom search URL that set my locale to en-ww. With that said, I tried it for myself and found that the filter #.b_ad in EasyList does hide the ad in Chrome (I tested in uBlock Origin, but ABP should be similar), but it doesn't hide the ad in Edge.at least not when using the ordinary search box from the homepage, which in my region has the locale en-us. I think he meant ads on Bing itself, not ads from some "Bing ads network" that may show up on other sites, analogously to Google AdSense.
