And uninstalled. Are any of the adblockers open source? So, I can take a look at the code, and learn how they work.
It is open source. http://code.getadblock.com/releases/
Edit: Found the right fork https://adblockplus.org/source
Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
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Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#42BE VERY CAREFUL!!! I already used another popular extension, after a few months it was sold and the new owner just started to send EVERY PAGE users visited to his own servers!! This extension was blocked by Google, but it was waaaaaay too late and they was able to collected a lot of data from users like me.
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#43To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!
Hey there! I thought I was the only one :D
Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#44Note that Adblock isn't Adblock Plus: AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock ] No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).
There's also two different versions of uBlock.
Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#45To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
My only problem with it is that it blocks Google hangouts and Facebook messenger. I haven't figured out a way to make those work while it's enabled.
Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Apparently this is an issue, as gorhill mentions, when selecting the leaky IP option. They should make the implications much clearer.
Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#46To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
My only problem with it is that it blocks Google hangouts and Facebook messenger. I haven't figured out a way to make those work while it's enabled. Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Apparently this is an issue, as gorhill mentions, when selecting the leaky IP option. They should make the implications much clearer.
I have not had that problem. I access Hangouts through gmail.com.
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#47And uninstalled. Are any of the adblockers open source? So, I can take a look at the code, and learn how they work.
Pretty much all of them are, including this one. If you want to pick one, I recommend uBlock Origin.
Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#48To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!
That's the straw that broke the camel's back for me, personally. A lot of sites out there were becoming completely unreadable.
Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
#49It would be unbelievably obvious, yet ironic, if the "anonymous" buyer of Adblock ended up being an ad company. Why else would they want to remain anonymous?
That was my first thought as well. This has to be either a consortium of advertisers or a single big player.