Mysterious buyer acquires Adblock!

Tiny

Mysterious buyer acquires Adblock.

The ‘Anonymous buyer’ conspiracy has caused concern for Adblock users and they have raised number of questions on social media sites, such as:

Should I trust AdBlock Extension anymore?
Who owns the Software I have installed?
Is it NSA? :cry:

http://www.businessinsider.com/adblock-gets-sold-acceptable-ads-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/adblock-chrome-extension-sold/

What Should you do?

I personally am watching ABP closely for new updates and dropping it completely, and swapping to uBlock.

Download uBlock with a simple google search.
Remember that ublock(.)org is NOT in relation to the uBlock we are speaking about. It states it on their browser download pages.

Ashley

I thought the "anonymous buyer" of AdBlock was ABP? They aren't the same plugin.

Tiny

desu wrote:
I thought the "anonymous buyer" of AdBlock was ABP? They aren't the same plugin.

Apparently no one knows who the buyer is, I myself used ABP, but I made the swap to watch things just because I want to be careful myself.

Adblock and Adblock Plus are really different. ABP is open code and its privacy policy is clear, Adblock's is not. Confusing I know, confuses me sometimes too, but they are indeed different things.

Personally I feel uBlock is better anyways, but still things need to be looked into.

Ashley

lmgtfy link
why do you have to be a dick about it

Tiny

Lokorfi wrote:
I switched to uBlock a while ago, but I might as well wipe ADB+ off of my Addons list.

As I said above, basically i'm not sure the relationship between ADB+ and ADB, they are different. ADB is the one that was sold, not sure about ADB+. Stay safe, do what you gotta do, privacy is privacy for a reason.

Tiny

desu wrote:
lmgtfy link
why do you have to be a dick about it

I had good intentions. As they aren't related to a site that pops up #1 on google, I figured I'd give the exact words that I typed to not have the site as one of the first responses when they clearly state it isn't them.

clicky

The buyer was probably a large advertising company like Google, adblock would be killing the advertising industry.

Saikou

I use all three, ads rape my computer

clicky

22508
using all three sounds like it'd eat your ram.