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Maybe into your attention, but the majority of people probably have no idea what a Palm Pilot even is…
Sure they did. They were on TV for years. It was a sign of being important to carry some form of palm / blackberry device around. Just like when car phones first came out..
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> [ABP] makes no secret that it charges big companies for whitelisting services – it mentions it right in its FAQ. From [1]. I'm not sure what better fits the definition of selling out. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/google-and-others-reported...
A self-citing piece is not a credible source in the slightest.
> We receive some donations from our users, but our main source of revenue comes as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative. As detailed below, larger entities pay a licensing fee for the whitelisting services requested and provided to them.
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Come on, as if ABP innovated so much? ABP wasn't the first. I remember using an adblocker native in Firefox back around 2004 (and IIRC I even used on on Mozilla milestones). Back then, there were already /etc/hosts based alternatives (which also have always worked in Windows btw) as well, and a so-called personal firewall could also block ads. These existed for Windows 9x. We're talking end of '90s here. As for the c…
I remember using the Internet Junkbuster[1] and Privoxy[2] to block ads in the browser long before ABP. The novelty was embedding the functionality directly in the browser through the extensions. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/19980210082938/http://internet.j... [2] http://www.privoxy.org/
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Interesting. However, AFAIK, the regional block lists are not enabled by default (not sure about ABP, but it's definitely the case with UBO), which makes it pretty useless without further setup for a sizeable part of the userbase, so I'd expect that most people who are capable of installing the extension are also capable of at least basic set up.
> the regional block lists are not enabled by default (not sure about ABP, but it's definitely the case with UBO) uBO does select relevant regional list(s), if any, at first install according to the browser locale. I am pretty sure it's the same with ABP.
Thanks for making uBO!