 Noah VailOh God please no.
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Adblock Extension sold to mystery buyerThe creator of Adblock has sold the enterprise to someone and he isn't saying who it is. said by TheHackerNews : Adblock Extension that blocks annoying online advertising has been sold...
...And more shocking, the most popular "Adblock Extension", with more than 40 million users, quietly sold their creation to an unknown buyer...
'Michael Gundlach', the creator widely used Adblock Extension refuses to disclose the name, who purchased his company and how much it was sold for, just because buyer wishes to remain anonymous.
After watching a popup message (as shown) on their browsers this week, the Adblock users are literally going crazy. quote:
"I am selling my company, and the buyer is turning on Acceptable Ads," Gundlach said.
No doubt, Ad-blocking has become a huge problem for Online Publications and websites that rely on Ad Revenue... ...but now these utilities have changed their fundamental idea for making money by enabling the "Acceptable Ads" feature, which maintains a whitelist of ads that aren't blocked by default. Acceptable Ads feature will now let some advertisements through on by selected websites or by selected companies by default, if those companies pay for showing their ads. In short Adblock has been shady with whitelisting for some time - but - they still mostly get a pass from me. The reasons are: 1) Adblock was the first so 1 point there. 2) When Adblock launched whitelisting, the notification was in-your-face. Also you could turn it off so another point for handling that well (Caveat: Adblock had tons of stuff whitelisted years before that so it may have all been smoke+mirrors)3) IMHO, Adblock has been less worthwhile for a couple of years now. People are moving on to UBlock and alt tech like Ghostery and YARIP. What drove me off of Adblock happened over the last 1-2 years so the sale makes no difference to me. There you go. Until mystery-buyer outs himself, the speculation will be interesting. |
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Noah VailOh God please no.
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I'd say that effectually quashes any rumors. |
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 siljalineI'm lovin' that double wide
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Also related - Adblock Plus lands on iOS » Adblock Plus lands on iOS |
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Just to keep it straight, I do not think this is related to AdBlockPlus (Wlad's fork/rebuild from Roe's past work), unless someone is fibbing.. » adblockplus.org/blog/fro ··· ds-board |
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said by Noah Vail:I'd say that effectually quashes any rumors. quote:
Ad blocker AdBlock has been bought by an unknown purchaser
rumors abound...let's see an announcement by the new owner! |
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 SeleniaGentoo Convert
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I say everyone should uninstall it until they do reveal the new owner. I know I am not one who likes code running on my PC without knowing the source's reputation or motivations behind writing such code. In open source, the latter is always apparent if not by the project's declaration then by peeping at the code. |
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Looks like I'll follow Noah Vail 's lead go to UBlock. |
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 jaykaykay4 Ever Young
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Can UBlock be used on IE? |
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jap
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2015-Oct-10 10:55 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlockBetween the Wiki article and this FAQ document: » www.ublock.org/faq/one can make a somewhat better educated a selection between the two separate projects of UBlock Origin versus Ublock. I've been using Origin for 7 or 8 (?) months. Mostly content with it. |
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 LanikLab-nik
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Only Opera, Safari, FireFox, Pale Moon, Seamonkey and Chrome I believe. |
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 BlackbirdBuilt for Speed
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said by Lanik:Only Opera, Safari, FireFox, Pale Moon, Seamonkey and Chrome I believe. And Vivaldi... |
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 EGeezer
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Ad-supported website operators shot themselves in the foot when they started putting popups, pop-overs, mouse-over popups, flash videos, blinky animations, and shady or malicious advertisers on their sites. I don't mind ads on pages, and have clicked through to look at something that catches my fancy. But when a page starts to look like a National Lampoon Christmas tree, then it's time to drop the hammer and block everything. Who remembers the X10 advertising debacles? Lordy, I was ready to pull an Elvis and shoot the CRT. Even after over a decade, I'll never buy from that company. For a discussion on the topic as it relates to BBR, see » No more premium accounts? |
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Noah VailOh God please no.
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Noah Vail
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2015-Oct-12 11:43 am
said by EGeezer:Ad-supported website operators shot themselves in the foot when they started putting popups, pop-overs, mouse-over popups, flash videos, blinky animations, and shady or malicious advertisers on their sites. I remember. 1994 was a bad year. |
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EGeezer
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2015-Oct-12 11:53 am
said by Noah Vail:I remember. 1994 was a bad year. The term 'web cacophony' comes to mind - |
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 bewholeI Am Here
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said by Boricua:Looks like I'll follow Noah Vail 's lead go to UBlock. I just did. |
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