Adblock Plus and (a little) more
We are back in Top10 - and Adblock is out! · 2006-10-25 23:36 by Wladimir Palant
It finally happened — for the first time Adblock Plus has more downloads than Adblock. Only a few moments ago Adblock Plus moved up to rank 10th on AMO and pushed Adblock onto the 11th place. I hope that this time Adblock Plus will get a permanent place in the Top10 (actually, I count on getting into Top5 within the next few days). Last time it was prevented by an problem with the caching server at AMO.
Ethics of blocking ads - Part 2 · 2006-10-25 10:23 by Wladimir Palant
This article continues the discussion on ethical implications of ad blocking software. Since the first part was probably somewhat too abstract we should take an example this time — Heise.de.
"Русские" и Германия · 2006-10-22 09:12 by Wladimir Palant
Подумал недавно над тем, как наши бывшие соотечественники, родившиеся на территории бывшего Союза и эмигрировавшие в Германию уже в сознательном возрасте, эту самую Германию воспринимают. Получилось, что тут в основном существует три категории.
The good news keep coming · 2006-10-06 04:15 by Wladimir Palant
I got a message from Mike Shaver telling that AMO is revising and extending its list of recommended add-ons for Firefox 2 release — and Adblock Plus should be one of them.
It is traveling time again · 2006-10-03 02:15 by Wladimir Palant
I will be traveling a lot, starting this Saturday. I am taking the remaining week of my vacation visiting Cologne and Hamburg, then I’ll be attending to ACM Multimedia in Santa Barbara, CA and NetGames in Singapore. I won’t be back in Oslo until November so don’t expect me to do much Adblock Plus development until then. I’ll try to answer mails from time to time.
First browser with Adblock Plus built-in released · 2006-09-29 01:58 by Wladimir Palant
The very first browser with Adblock Plus built-in was released today — K-MeleonCCF 0.05.6.5, thanks Hao Jiang. And that despite the fact that the development build used was marked EXPERIMENTAL and that it wasn’t tested at all in this variation of K-Meleon (unlike the regular K-Meleon it has tabs, and this release is actually the first version not to crash when Adblock Plus is installed).
Heise-RSS in Thunderbird vernünftig lesen · 2006-09-24 06:03 by Wladimir Palant
Ich bin sicher, dass ich nicht der einzige bin, der sich über den RSS-Feed von Heise geärgert hat. Was soll man damit, wenn da keine Zusammenfassung drin steht? Versuchen, den Inhalt an der Überschrift zu erraten? Selbst das Datum der Meldung gibt es in dem Feed erst seit kurzem.
Thunderbird, first impressions · 2006-09-23 04:55 by Wladimir Palant
I have been experimenting with Adblock Plus in Thunderbird (large parts of the user interface work already, I’ll release a development build soon). It looks like I might stop using “Simplified HTML” + “Block loading of remote images”, a setup I have been using for over three years. But maybe now I can finally enjoy reading RSS feeds with images.
Google does it again · 2006-09-22 01:13 by Wladimir Palant
When I first saw this, I could only think — wow! Word processing and spreadsheets are classical examples of areas where web applications will never be able to achieve the quality of desktop applications. But Google made a habit out of overthrowing accepted wisdoms and so they’ve gone great lengths to make their spreadsheets web app feel like a desktop application — with success, for most part.
Adblock - the evolution · 2006-09-10 00:31 by Wladimir Palant
Did you know when the Adblock project came to be? Have you ever wondered whether there ever was Adblock 0.1? Maybe also asking yourself what it looked like? Now you can get the answers to all these questions, and since one picture says more than a thousand words — you also get screenshots. Thanks to CVS’ long memory these screenshots are still there for us — take a look!