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It's mostly a marketing issue in my opinion. ABP was the first ad-blocker to enter the mainstream market back during the Firefox days, and they had virtually no
by angott 7y ago
It's mostly a marketing issue in my opinion. ABP was the first ad-blocker to enter the mainstream market back during the Firefox days, and they had virtually no competition for half a decade, before the entire Acceptable Ads controversy. I think unfortunately there is still a significant number of users who just associate "AdBlock == AdBlock Plus".
- gorhill 7y ago> a significant number of users who just associate "AdBlock == AdBlock Plus" AdBlock uses Adblock Plus filtering engine internally and also supports and enables "Acceptable Ads" by default: > AdBlock is a popular ad blocking extension for Chrome, Opera and Safari, now based on the Adblock Plus code.[1] * * * [1] https://github.com/betafish-inc/adblock-releases https://github.com/betafish-inc/adblock-releases
- angott 7y agoOh, sorry, I was not referring to specifically that AdBlock extension. I wanted to say that users just associate "adblocking extension = AdBlock Plus".
- gorhill 7y agoAh I see, never mind then; and in that case I do agree with your comment.
- brian_herman__ 7y agoLove ur work with origin
- shpx 7y agoAny chance you're going to get the uBlock name back? Explaining the story every time I tell someone to switch to uBlock Origin is annoying.
- ryanchoi 7y agoAgreed, in the same way all touchscreen smartphones were/are(?) called iPhones, or people calling all tissues Kleenexes in the US, I think for a huge fraction of laypersons, ABP has an understandably strong grasp on the product category.