Adblock extension sells to mystery buyer
Adblock, which touts 40 million users, sold to a mystery buyer today and nobody will explain why.
Adblock extension sells to mystery buyer, refuses to name new owner
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Google.
It would be my bet if I had to make one, and would certainly make sense from their perspective. I don't know that Google is typically all about hiding acquisitions though.
then suddenly and mysteriously quits working…..
FYI there are people out there who buy popular extensions then put adware into them. It happens all the time and because it's the same extension it happens with a silent update.
NSA
Pro tip: switch to AdBlock Plus, it's a separate project/owner
https://adblockplus.org/
Considering Google just allowed AdBlock back into the Play store, it would make sense that it's because they were acquiring the company. Ethical ads my arse.
The real pro tip is to use ublock origin which is easily the best desktop ad blocker on the market. Uses far less ram and cpu
+Travis Owens HA! I thought this was referring to ABP (which I use), I didn't know there was another!
+Michael Jones I'd tried origin some time ago and it was horrible on my system. It was the exact opposite of memory friendly. But that was a while back, maybe I'll give it another spin.
+Paul Spoerry yea, it's not like it's suppose to be a pro edition. Somebody took the Adblock codebase and forked.