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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.

UBO has tamed that parasitic beast, and I for one am glad! I prefer Reddit (and all reading) via my NUC-PC on a 55' 4K anyway. It went from just annoying to now insane, but if it's all one has ever known it becomes normalized. The Reddit app mention was more of an example of the spam-ad explosion that's taken over the Wild Wild Web since I started using it, some 3 decades ago ( AOL). Chrome browser and other unused but uninstallable apps are disabled & hidden/grouped I'm installing Lineage OS on Moto soon anyway.

#Adblock ultimate options broken android#

Having a UBO-type extension for the entire Android phone is intriguing indeed, especially if it's FOSS.Ĭurrently, I use Firefox & Brave browser (both synced to my master Linux Mint-C PC) on my Android, which thus comes with UBO. I will be looking into all of these ideas, as I really do get into tech stuff.

Wow! See how cool people are? Everyone jumped in to help me with the Reddit app on Android issue.

#Adblock ultimate options broken install#

I know for sure when I was less computer literature I had no idea about it because when people told me to install an ad blocker that's what I looked up and adblock plus was the top result, ublock didn't even register because the name and description didn't mention anything about blocking ads. I have always felt this was ublock's biggest hurdle to mainstream appeal. So unless you tell people about ublock's capabilities they usually won't bother clicking and will just install whatever extension named 'adblocker' appears first and has the most downloads. Ublock as a name doesn't tell the user anything, you can't figure out at a glance that it's an ad blocker (I know it's a general purpose content blocker, not just for ads, but 99% of people use it for ads only), and the description also says nothing about blocking ads whereas all other extensions clearly state they block ads. I just tried now and ublock is the 6th result, it's almost out of the results page unless I scroll down! The most appealing result from a glance if I was a lay person would be adblocker ultimate (which I heard has been growing a lot lately as well) The majority of people are just gonna search 'adblock' or 'ad blocker' and the top result is always something other than ublock. I'm think a big part of the problem is ublock's name and description.