Not really. It seems to imply that people started to hop around trying to find one that worked. Not everyone is savvy enough or in tech groups to understand or even be aware of UBlock. Most people just install whatever based on how much they like the icon. UBlock themselves don't feature in this article and they don't publish their install numbers, I don't think they even track them, so we don't know.
I dunno, I'm the IT guy in the group and I had a couple of non-techy friends as well as 2 different family members hitting me up for instructions on how to fix it. This bugged a lot of regular people and I had a hand in correcting it for all of them, I don't think they were just uninstalling the adblockers, they were either reinstalling them or replacing them with other adblockers.
Does Firefox track addon installs? Currently shows 6,923,048 Users on the UBlock addon page, I wonder how they get that number and how often it updates.
And I'd prefer it staying that way. If uBlock becomes too big, Google will go after them directly and that would most likely end uBlock working on Google websites.
As far as I'm aware, ublock is the biggest. And there's zero chance Google isn't aware of them. They've been fighting ublock techniques directly for years, including recently for the YouTube detection.
It's also what virtually every engineer there that has AdBlock uses when they're not using pihole or something.
Uhh, no. Eyeo does not own uBlock Origin. Eyeo is AdBlock Plus and they own uBlock by uBlock, LLC. uBlock Origin is a Free Open Source Project developed by Raymond Hill. From their manifesto: “The uBO project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto" because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is the business plan of a for-profit entity.”
That's a massive accidental misinformation blunder from the journalist.
EDIT: added some details that might get confusing because Eyeo are a bunch of ass hats.
I swear the way IT people speak about non-IT people is so funny. You guys act like everyone is borderline retarded because they don't know intricate details of your hobby/career. Acting like you're a part of some other group that doesn't understand human beings and their attraction to shiny things. It's like watching an alien try to sneak into society.
Hmm…
"last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs"
So… they simply switched to UBlock Origin?
That's how I head it. People got a lesson in not using ad blockers that have been playing nice with Google.
Not really. It seems to imply that people started to hop around trying to find one that worked. Not everyone is savvy enough or in tech groups to understand or even be aware of UBlock. Most people just install whatever based on how much they like the icon. UBlock themselves don't feature in this article and they don't publish their install numbers, I don't think they even track them, so we don't know.
I dunno, I'm the IT guy in the group and I had a couple of non-techy friends as well as 2 different family members hitting me up for instructions on how to fix it. This bugged a lot of regular people and I had a hand in correcting it for all of them, I don't think they were just uninstalling the adblockers, they were either reinstalling them or replacing them with other adblockers.
also literally no one uses the term allowlist so people aren't just whitelisting youtube
Not all heroes wear capes.
Does Firefox track addon installs? Currently shows 6,923,048 Users on the UBlock addon page, I wonder how they get that number and how often it updates.
And I'd prefer it staying that way. If uBlock becomes too big, Google will go after them directly and that would most likely end uBlock working on Google websites.
As far as I'm aware, ublock is the biggest. And there's zero chance Google isn't aware of them. They've been fighting ublock techniques directly for years, including recently for the YouTube detection.
It's also what virtually every engineer there that has AdBlock uses when they're not using pihole or something.
The owners of Ublock, eyeo, are extensively quoted in the article, although ublock itself is only mentioned once as one of their holdings.
Uhh, no. Eyeo does not own uBlock Origin. Eyeo is AdBlock Plus and they own uBlock by uBlock, LLC. uBlock Origin is a Free Open Source Project developed by Raymond Hill. From their manifesto: “The uBO project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto" because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is the business plan of a for-profit entity.” That's a massive accidental misinformation blunder from the journalist.
EDIT: added some details that might get confusing because Eyeo are a bunch of ass hats.
Yea that is very confusing, especially when UBO is often referred to as simply UBlock. Thanks for the info.
I swear the way IT people speak about non-IT people is so funny. You guys act like everyone is borderline retarded because they don't know intricate details of your hobby/career. Acting like you're a part of some other group that doesn't understand human beings and their attraction to shiny things. It's like watching an alien try to sneak into society.
Seems like the contempt goes both ways.
Well, if they put all of the info in the title who would be able to make up their own assumptions?
Or they switched from Chrome to Firefox.