Adblock Plus
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| Developer(s) | Eyeo GmbH Current lead developer: Wladimir Palant Former lead developers: Henrik Aasted Sørensen, Michael McDonald |
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| Initial release | 2006 | ||||||||
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| Written in | JavaScript, XUL, CSS | ||||||||
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Mozilla extension Android application |
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| License | GPLv3 | ||||||||
| Website | adblockplus |
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| Firefox | 2.8.2 / November 22, 2016 |
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| Chrome, Opera, Safari | 1.13.2 / March 21, 2017 |
| Internet Explorer | 1.6 / September 22, 2015 |
| Android | 1.3 / March 3, 2015 |
Adblock Plus (ABP) is an open-sourcecontent-filtering and ad blocking extension developed by Eyeo GmbH (Wladimir Palant), a German software development company. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for mobile), Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge (beta version), Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser and Android.
In 2011, AdBlock Plus and Eyeo attracted considerable controversy from its users when it introduced an "Acceptable Ads" platform to "allow certain non-intrusive ads" (such as Google AdWords) to be allowed (whitelisted) under the extension's default settings. While participation in the whitelisting process is free for small websites, large advertising companies are required to pay a fee. Whitelisting was enabled by default for AdBlock Plus users.
Michael McDonald created Adblock Plus 0.5, which improved on the original Adblock by incorporating the following features:
McDonald discontinued development and transferred the name to Wladimir Palant, who released Adblock Plus 0.6 with a rewritten codebase in January 2006.PC World chose Adblock Plus as one of the 100 best products of 2007.
Adblock Plus for Google Chrome has been available since December 2010 and has over 10 million users. It has also become the most popular extension for Firefox, with around 18 million users as of March 2014.
Adblock Plus was released as an app for Android devices in November 2012.
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