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Install Adblock Plus for your business, school, or organization

We occasionally receive requests from IT Administrators interested in deploying ABP for a company, educational group, or other organization. Options are available for Chrome and Edge. 

Adblock Plus Premium upgrade is not currently supported for these types of deployments, and is not required as we provide basic ad blocking for free: Do I have to pay for Adblock Plus?

Deploy Adblock Plus

If you are using Chrome, install Adblock Plus for Chrome on your users' computers via group policy. See Google's group policy help for more information. 

If you are using Edge, install Adblock Plus for Edge on your users' computers via group policy. See Microsoft's group policy help for more information: Configure Microsoft Edge policy settings on Windows.

For more information on configuring Chrome extensions by policy, along with instructions for macOS and ChromeOS, please refer to the official Chromium Projects documentation.

Manage settings

A list of the settings that can be managed for Adblock Plus can be found here: managed-storage-schema.json

Disable the first-run page

ABP's post-install page appears every time the extension is installed. You can suppress this behavior using extension policies or a JSON file so your users don’t see the payment page every time they open Chrome or Edge.

Windows

On Windows instances that are joined to an Active Directory domain, the first-run page can be disabled with the following registry file:

Chrome

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb\policy] "suppress_first_run_page" = dword:0000001

Edge

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\3rdparty\extensions\gmgoamodcdcjnbaobigkjelfplakmdhh\policy] "suppress_first_run_page" = dword:0000001

ChromeOS

On Chromebooks, ABP's first-run page can be disabled with the following JSON file: 

{  "suppress_first_run_page": {    "Value": true  } }

For more detailed information, please see Google's Chrome for business and education help for Chrome devices.

macOS

For more information on configuring Chrome extensions by policy and instructions for OS X/MacOS, please see the Chromium project documentation.

Linux

On Linux computers, the first-run page can be disabled with the following JSON file in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ or /etc/chromium/policies/managed/: 

{   "3rdparty": {     "extensions": {       "cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb": {         "suppress_first_run_page": true       }     }   } }

Manage Filter Lists for Users

The same mechanism as above can be used to allow central configuration of additional filter list subscriptions. Learn more: What are filter lists?

Windows

You will need to set up the following group policy to subscribe your users to additional filter lists. The examples below will subscribe users to the EasyPrivacy filter list.

Chrome

[HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb\policy\additional_subscriptions] "1" = "https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt"

Edge

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\3rdparty\extensions\gmgoamodcdcjnbaobigkjelfplakmdhh\policy\additional_subscriptions] "1" = "https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt"

ChromeOS

Please see Google's Chrome for business and education help for Chrome devices.

macOS

For macOS instructions, please see the Chromium project documentation.

Linux

For Linux instructions, please see the Chromium project documentation.

Manage Custom Filters for Users

You can't install Adblock Plus with your organization's custom filters already in place. However, you can create your own locally-hosted filter list and automatically subscribe your users. See this article from our partner extension, AdBlock, to learn how to create your own filter list (that can also be used for Adblock Plus): How to create your own personal filter list.

Windows

On Windows instances that are joined to an Active Directory domain, a local custom filter list can be enabled with the following registry file (assuming the URL of the custom filter list is  "https://yourcompany.com/yourcustomlist.txt").

Chrome

[HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb\policy\additional_subscriptions] "1" = "https://yourcompany.com/yourcustomlist.txt"

Edge

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\3rdparty\extensions\gmgoamodcdcjnbaobigkjelfplakmdhh\policy\additional_subscriptions] "1" = "https://yourcompany.com/yourcustomlist.txt" 

ChromeOS

You can use a JSON file in the following format:

{     "additional_subscriptions": {       "type": "array",       "items": {         "type": "string"       }   } }

For instance:

{   "additional_subscriptions": {     "Value": ["EXAMPLEURL"]   } }

For more information, please see Google's Chrome for business and education help for Chrome devices.

macOS

For macOS instructions, please see the Chromium project documentation.

Linux

For Linux instructions, please see the Chromium project documentation. 

Manage Free Features

Our free features are managed through filter lists. They can be added to a managed install using the additional_subscriptions setting described above. Below we’ve listed each setting and its corresponding filter list.