How does Adblock Plus really work in Chrome?

Question

I noticed Adblock Plus injecting some CSS that hides the advertisements, but I think that it does more than that - for example blocking HTTP requests.

How does Adblock Pl

Answer 1

Here it is how it is done: https://adblockplus.org/en/faq_internal#elemhide

They just disable the block the adblock with the list of ids that they have in hand at user agent stylesheet i.e. at your browser level with its JS.