jeudi 24 mars 2016

How-to: enable adblockers on Verizon w/Samsung Browser

If you've been able to download the Samsung Internet browser from the Google Play Store, you still may not have the ability to activate any downloaded ad-blocking plug-ins, due to not having the menu item needed to enable and manage them in the Samsung browser's settings menu.

Note that it could be that you *do* have the appropriate menu item available, as some folks have reported that they have it.

I was not that lucky, and had to resort to a work-around to make it appear.

If you also need to do that, here is one way to do it:

In the browser's address bar, enter the following pseudo-url (do not include the quotation marks): "about:contentblock"

Then, visit the advanced settings menu ("More->Settings->Advanced") where you can now see a new entry ("Block content"), *if you have already installed one of the available ad-block plug-ins from the Play Store*.

Two decent ones are "Adblock Plus (Samsung Browser)" and "Crystal Adblock for Samsung" - they must be downloaded and installed separately from the browser itself, and must be installed before the browser will display the enable settings, even if you've already issued the "about:contentblock" pseudo-url.

Advancing to the "Block content" settings will show a switch to allow adblocking plug-ins to function, and will show a list of all installed adblock plug-ins, and allow you to select one of them to be active.

If, like me, you find you must use this work-around to get the "Block content" options to show up, then you will have to do this each time the Samsung Browser is restarted (easier to just leave it running, but, you know, stuff happens).

Therefore, it might be handy to set up a bookmark to perform the "about:contentblock" procedure. Just go into the bookmarks menu, tap the Add button, and type a name for your bookmark (I used "Enable Block content menu"), and enter " about:contentblock" as the bookmark's URL.

After clicking on this bookmark whenever the browser is restarted, you will, unfortunately, also still have to go into the "Block content" settings and turn on ad-blocking and reselect an installed plugin.

Hope some of you find this helpful.


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