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Not to be confused with Adblock Plus.
AdBlock
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Original author(s) Michael Gundlach
Developer(s) BetaFish Incorporated
Initial release December 8, 2009 (2009-12-08)
Stable release Chrome, Safari, Opera:
2.45 / December 3, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-12-03) (Google Chrome) December 4, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-12-04) (Opera)
Firefox:
2.0 / November 11, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-11-11)
Preview release Chrome, Safari, Opera:
2.19 / March 11, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-11)
Firefox:
2.0 / November 11, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-11-11)
Development status In development
Written in Javascript
Available in ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), Bahasa Indonesia, Deutsch, English, Français, Nederlands, Türkçe, català, dansk, español, hrvatski, italiano, latviešu, magyar, polski, português (Brasil), português (Portugal), română, slovenský, slovenščina, Suomi, Svenska, čeština, Ελληνικά, Српски, български, русский, українська, עברית, తెలుగు, ‫العربية, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), 日本語, 한국어[1]
Type Browser extension
License GPLv3[2]
Website Getadblock.com

AdBlock is a content filtering and ad blocking extension for the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera web browsers.[1][3][4][5] AdBlock allows users to prevent page elements, such as (and mainly) advertisements, from being displayed. It is free to download and use, but users can donate any amount they want to the developers. As of July 2014, AdBlock is the most popular Google Chrome extension, with over 40,000,000 users,[6][7] and the most popular Safari extension.[8] According to an article in The New York Times,[9] the extension was created on December 8, 2009 (the day that support for extensions was added to Google Chrome). Safari support was added in June 2010.

AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts.[10][11]

Acceptable Ads Program and sale

AdBlock was sold to an anonymous buyer in 2015. In the terms of the deal, original author Michael Gundlach left operations to Adblock’s continuing director, Gabriel Cubbage, and as of October 2nd, 2015, AdBlock began participating in the Acceptable Ads program. Acceptable Ads defines guidelines to identify "non-annoying" ads, which AdBlock now shows by default. The intent is to allow non-invasive advertising, so as to maintain support for websites that rely on advertising as a main source of revenue.[12]

AdBlock for Firefox

On September 13, 2014,[13] the AdBlock team released a version for Firefox users, ported from the code for Google Chrome, released under the same free software licence as the original. The extension was removed by an administrator on Mozilla Add-ons[14] no later than April 2, 2015.[15] The official site's knowledge base article, updated July 13, 2015, states that they are working with Mozilla to fix the issue.[16]

Filters

AdBlock uses the same filter syntax as Adblock Plus for Firefox and natively supports Adblock Plus filter subscriptions. Filter subscriptions can be added from a list of recommendations in the "Filter Lists" tab of the AdBlock options page, or by clicking on an Adblock Plus auto-subscribe link.

CatBlock

On April 1, 2012 the developer tweaked the code to display LOLcats instead of simply blocking ads. Initially developed as a short-lived April Fool joke, the response was so positive that CatBlock is now an optional add-on supported by a monthly subscription.[17]

On October 23, 2014 the developer decided to end official support for CatBlock, and made it open-source, under the same license as the original extension.[18]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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