‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
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#2> UBlock, another Adblock-owned blocking extension
TIL According to Wikipedia: "In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock"[1]
This is not uBlock Origin.
Re: ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
#3> UBlock, another Adblock-owned blocking extension TIL According to Wikipedia: "In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock"[1] This is not uBlock Origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
AdBlock and uBlock are both sellouts. Long live uBlock Origin!
Re: ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
#4> UBlock, another Adblock-owned blocking extension TIL According to Wikipedia: "In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock"[1] This is not uBlock Origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
Correct. More information from the source:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...
Re: ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
#5> UBlock, another Adblock-owned blocking extension TIL According to Wikipedia: "In July 2018, uBlock.org was acquired by AdBlock"[1] This is not uBlock Origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
Correct. More information from the source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...
I knew it was owned by someone else, I didn't expect it to have been sold to Adblock Plus though! I wish they would just hand the domain over to gorhill. It feels shady that they squat on it for the name recognition.
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#6This piece feels like it wants me to be upset about the maintainers of EasyList, instead of the people that created the content which has become so toxic that people are scrambling for ways to block it.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct. More information from the source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-is-comp...
I knew it was owned by someone else, I didn't expect it to have been sold to Adblock Plus though! I wish they would just hand the domain over to gorhill. It feels shady that they squat on it for the name recognition.
Yeah .. I dislike the route that Adblock Plus went too, they make a ton of money off of lists like EasyList, and their silly Acceptable Ad (read: how is this not extortion) program.
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#8I did run into the same issue as mentioned in the article and the Easylist forum is full of publishers having complaining that their site doesn't work anymore.
I started working on http://blockedby.com , a monitoring tool to warn you when a rule would impact your website.
But after contacting a few websites that did have the issue on the forum, I couldn't find any that actually wanted to prevent this. A few discussions with publishers told me that they're more interested in convincing their users to give up on ad blockers rather than face the fact that people are not going to abandon ad blockers.
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#9>But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization
Yeah they are, the balance they're targeting is zero ads.
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#10>“It’s crazy that more people don’t know about this,” said Marty Kratky-Katz, the founder of Blockthrough, which lets publishers monetize using Adblock Plus’s Acceptable Ads program. “I don’t think they mean any harm or have any malicious intentions. But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization, or like they were elected. They’re just four dudes.”
Why would you ever want your adblocking list run by "experts in balancing publisher monetization"?