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I knew it was owned by someone else, I didn't expect it to have been sold to Adblock Plus though! I wish they would just hand the domain over to gorhill. It fee
by gen3 7y ago
I knew it was owned by someone else, I didn't expect it to have been sold to Adblock Plus though! I wish they would just hand the domain over to gorhill. It feels shady that they squat on it for the name recognition.
- Operyl 7y agoYeah .. I dislike the route that Adblock Plus went too, they make a ton of money off of lists like EasyList, and their silly Acceptable Ad (read: how is this not extortion) program.
- dastx 7y agoAdBlock Plus is different from AdBlock. AdBlock is owned by an unknown entity and the source has been based on ABP since 2016. ABP is owned by Eyeo Gmbh (which I think was founded by the original developers of ABP).
- papln 7y agoAljoudi hijacked the "uBlock" name from gorhill (apparently because gorhill was more concernted about building a good tool than maintaining trademark protection, and I guess no one volunteered to donate (para)legal work), so handing it back would be a "wish" indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock