{"id":265951,"date":"2018-06-25T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265951"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:57:21","slug":"microsoft-edge-now-has-adblock-plus-built-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265951-microsoft-edge-now-has-adblock-plus-built-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge now has AdBlock Plus built in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is adding native ad-blocking to its Edge beta browser for Android and iOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2018\/06\/25\/microsoft-adds-native-adblocking-to-edge-for-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TheNextWeb<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The browser will feature a built-in version of AdBlock Plus, which is one of the most popular ad-blockers.<\/p>\n<p>As this software will now be natively-integrated in the browser, users will not have to download additional applications to use AdBlock Plus features.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the feature has started rolling out to the beta versions of its Edge app for Android.<\/p>\n<p>Native AdBlock Plus integration for Edge will roll out for iOS users in a separate test programme.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Edge app has received over <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/265829-microsoft-edge-for-android-growing-its-user-base.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>five million downloads<\/strong><\/a> on the Google Play Store, following its official launch for the platform earlier this year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/265829-microsoft-edge-for-android-growing-its-user-base.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Edge for Android growing its user base<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is adding native ad-blocking to its Edge beta for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[33156,397,605,691,30102],"class_list":["post-265951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-adblock-plus","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-microsoft-edge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265979,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265951\/revisions\/265979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}