Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking. It is developed by Eyeo GmbH, a German software company. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including mobile), Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge (Chromium based version), Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Android.
Preferences dialog box of Adblock Plus showing a group of filters | |||||||||||
| Developer(s) | Eyeo GmbH Current CTO: Felix H. Dahlke Former lead developers: Wladimir Palant, Henrik Aasted Sørensen, Michael McDonald | ||||||||||
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| Initial release | October 23, 2005 | ||||||||||
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| Written in | JavaScript, XUL, CSS | ||||||||||
| Type | Mozilla extension mobile app | ||||||||||
| License | GPLv3 | ||||||||||
| Website | adblockplus | ||||||||||
In 2011, Adblock Plus and Eyeo attracted considerable controversy over its "Acceptable Ads" program to "allow certain non-intrusive ads" (such as Google Ads) to be allowed under the extension's default settings. While participation in the whitelisting process was free for small websites, large advertising companies were required to pay a fee in order for their ads to be whitelisted.
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