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Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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What is even the point of Adblock Plus now? uBlock Origin seems so much better

You're asking what the point in developing alternatives are?

Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6.

It looks like it was also rewritten for webextensions from that blog post.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself.

Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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post #4
post #2

What is even the point of Adblock Plus now? uBlock Origin seems so much better

You're asking what the point in developing alternatives are? Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6. It looks like it was also rewritten for webextensions from that blog post.

But AB isn't an alternative with pros and cons so much as it's a worse version of uBO.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

Not a thing! It's all you need.

Re: Taking a break from Adblock Plus development

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post #6

Most tech people now seem to use uBlock Origin. But I use uMatrix (from the same developer) and I am super happy with it. It took me a minute or so to understand the interface. But then it is super intuitive and exactly the way I would have designed it myself. Since I only allow the hosts that I need, I almost never see advertising. And the web is blazingly fast.

Has it got an easy way to unblock elements? Going through the every request in the logger using uBlock is pretty tedious.
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