Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Another detection possibility closed · 2007-09-19 20:42 by Wladimir Palant
This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 (to be released tomorrow).
Changes
- Fixed: Should not use predictable CSS classes (bug 17561)
Adblock Plus is most used extension · 2007-09-17 13:13 by Wladimir Palant
Justing Scott (aka fligtar, one of addons.mozilla.org developers) published interesting numbers in his blog. In addition to the (inherently unreliable) download numbers for extensions we now also have the numbers of active users to compare. Actually, they are not really user numbers, but at least Mozilla knows how often it received update requests for which extensions — and that’s good enough to compare relative usage.
Adblock Plus detection possibility closed · 2007-09-14 15:02 by Wladimir Palant
nsIAdblockPlus interface has been removed because it has been used to detect Adblock Plus from a web site. If your extension uses this interface and I didn’t mail you already, please send me a mail.
Changes
- nsIAdblockPlus interface removed to avoid detection
- Possibly fixed: Adblock filters disappear (bug 16488)
Ads don't generate money · 2007-09-10 04:46 by Wladimir Palant
The Adblock discussion started by Danny Carlton’s half-hearted attempts to exert pressure on Mozilla Corporation continues. Now the “big players” entered the game, in the last few days I was contacted by reporters from NY Times, BBC World, National Public Radio, and several others. Their criticism of Adblock Plus is different — and more convincing. After all, nobody can deny that Adblock Plus is taking revenue away from content providers thus undermining the foundation of the Internet, right?
Profitability is not a right, it has to be earned · 2007-09-06 22:18 by Wladimir Palant
The first project I wanted to make money from became a failure. Yes, I got some customers, even one large company, but in the end what I earned wasn’t comparable to the effort I put into it. Who’s fault was it? Mine of course. I knew too little about how to get users interested and to sell my product, and, frankly, I didn’t even want to learn more — creating a good product was more important to me. Did I blame my customers for my failure, did I say that they should have been more interested, should have paid more? Of course not. The customers didn’t have any obligation towards me, they were free to choose, as always.
Adblock for Internet Explorer is not an option · 2007-08-29 15:59 by Wladimir Palant
I already answered that question several times but recently a few people asked me again to create an Adblock Plus version for Internet Explorer. So I thought it would be worth answering in detail in my blog. Fact is, this is not likely to happen, for various reasons.
Why Firefox is blocked · 2007-08-29 06:31 by Wladimir Palant
Do I really have to say anything about this ridiculous FUD campaign against Firefox? No, I wouldn’t have anything to add to Why Darwin Beats Danny Carlton anyway. Thank you, Michael Arrington, I couldn’t agree more.
PC World chooses Adblock Plus as one of 100 best products of 2007 · 2007-05-23 19:08 by Wladimir Palant
It seems that Adblock Plus was chosen as one of 100 best products of 2007. This is pretty remarkable since the list consists not only from software solutions but has lots of hardware and services as well. From what I can see, Adblock Plus is the only Firefox extension chosen this year and the second altogether (first being Greasemonkey last year). Also, it seems that I was the only physical person who received the award this year, most others being larger companies like Google or Intel.
Status bar icon fully functional in K-Meleon 1.1 · 2007-05-12 04:27 by Wladimir Palant
This development build makes use of new status bar functionality in K-Meleon 1.1 to make the status bar icon fully functional.
Changes
- Added context menu to the status bar icon (K-Meleon 1.1 or higher only)
- Middle-click on the status bar icon now disables/re-enables Adblock Plus (K-Meleon 1.1 or higher only)
- Fixed: Useless “Show in toolbar” option appears in the toolbar icon’s context menu
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1 released · 2007-05-01 18:02 by Wladimir Palant
Major changes
- Added translations for Estonian and Frisian
- Fixed the bug that emptied the filter list in some very rare cases
- Fixed a few minor issues with Adblock Plus 0.7.5
- All columns in the list of blockable items are visible by default now that there is space for them
- Improved K-Meleon support