Adblock

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Adblock

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Basic data

developer Henrik Aasted Sørensen
Publishing year 2002
category Ad blocker
License Mozilla Public License

Adblock is a historical ad blocker from the time Mozilla Firefox was created .

What was new about Adblock was that advertisements could no longer be recognized by the dimensions of images but by the addresses of ad servers . Adblock was designed to completely download websites as intended by their creators, but not to display advertisements contained in the download.

Wladimir Palant rewrote Adblock to Adblock Plus . Michael Gundlach wrote AdBlock based on his model .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lara O'Reilly: The inventor of Adblock tells us he wrote the code as a 'procrastination project' at university - and he's never made money from it . Business Insider. July 14, 2015.
  2. Siim Teller: Michael Gundlach, the man who's blocked 100 billion ads . Flattr . November 30, 2011.