Palant said explicitly in a blog post that he turned the whitelist on by default because the vast majority of people don't change the default. The forum has al

Palant said explicitly in a blog post that he turned the whitelist on by default because the vast majority of people don't change the default. The forum has also been inundated by complaints (I've been following this) from people who installed ABP for 4, 5, 6 of their non-tech savvy friends who don't know what's going on, why ABP stopped working, and how to change it back. Thus, Palant has unwittingly caused (perhaps) hundreds of thousands of people to be inundated with tech support requests from their friends. That's part of the backlash.