Adblock Plus has launched a new browser for Android, letting smartphone and tablet users surf the web without seeing ads. Currently in beta, the company’s first browser was created by taking the open-source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus. Users can sample the browser by joining the Adblock Browser Beta Google+ community. Adblock Plus […]
Adblock Plus has launched a new browser for Android, letting smartphone and tablet users surf the web without seeing ads.
Currently in beta, the company’s first browser was created by taking the open-source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus.
Users can sample the browser by joining the Adblock Browser Beta Google+ community.
Adblock Plus already has a Firefox for Android add-on, though it requires installing two apps and setting them up.
The company also has an Android app that blocks in-app ads, but it only works on Wi-Fi connections and has to be sideloaded and connected to a proxy.
“As people have embraced the mobile web, advertisers have rushed in after them and destroyed the user experience with ads that are often thoughtlessly designed, as well as mobile ad networks that are riddled with security holes,” Adblock Plus cofounder Till Faida said in a statement. “Adblock Browser for Android puts the control back into users’ hands.”
