Raymond Hill, the creator of uBlock would separate from uBlock but continue developing the original codebase as uBlock Origin which would go on to become the more popular add-on, particularly among those fleeing AdBlock Plus and the Acceptable Ads program. it would later be forked by its original creator into uBlock Origin (for reasons I am unsure of and don't feel like figuring out -something to do with asking for and accepting donations I think). Despite being completely optional (albeit as an opt-out option) all the media and purists cared about was they were allowing ads and charging for it which pretty much caused AdBlock Plus to fall out of favor.Īround the same time uBlock came on the scene and gained popularity for being less memory-intensive. There is nothing technically wrong with AdBlock Plus (which is not the same as AdBlock, which is actually inspired by AdBlock Plus, which was inspired by the original Adblock extension after it has ceased development - open source projects have some odd forks).ĪdBlock Plus got themselves into controversy by creating the Acceptable Ads program that allows non-intrusive ads (as defined by them at the time although it is now defined by The Acceptable Ads Committee) to be displayed, on top of that they charged larger ad-networks (like Google) for inclusion in the program while smaller websites could participate for free.

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