Adblock Plus sold out a long time ago by taking money from big players to let their ads through. I've been using uBlock Origin for a while and haven't looked back. Plus it's way faster and less buggy.
Which should be opt-in. And if nobody wants to opt-in there is the problem; it's going against what the users want.
Most people never change default settings of software they install so "opt-in" may as well not have a way to "opt-out" except as a scapegoat to say you can.
You might as well just blame the browser vendor for not having a built-in ad blocker, URL rewriter (Google search results), not disabling 3rd party cookies or whatever else the flavour of the month in abusing-features-for-tracking is.
The people who never look into the settings probably didn't install the ad blocker themselves in the first place...
Not true. Even most people who install an AdBlocker will not change their settings. If you change your settings, you're part of a very small minority. Businesses often use this to increase tips.
Imagine two settings:
1) Enter your own amount (default of $0.00)
2) Four options: 15%, 20%, 25%, Other
If you use #1 you'll receive fewer tips. Many people will leave it to $0.00. If you use #2, most people will tip and of those tips most will be 15-20%.
[0] https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/09/14/do-users-change-t...
[1] https://www.fastcodesign.com/3022182/how-square-registers-ui...
uBO does select relevant regional list(s), if any, at first install according to the browser locale. I am pretty sure it's the same with ABP.
Thanks for making uBO!
Edit: I haven't actually spent enough time with the opt-out unchecked to come across one of these. I suppose it's the nature of the implementation - unless you have humans reviewing the ads or something of the sort, you'll never be able to filter them with 100% certainty.
The current workaround is to open the log and allow/disallow from there. But you can't get to the log button 99% of the time because of the rendering bug.
Not sure if it only affects the Dev Edition of Firefox or not. It certainly doesn't affect the Linux versions, neither Dev or mainline.
Really wish they would fix it. Here's how it looks on reddit, notice how much of it is unreachable: https://i.imgur.com/UHN7AQD.png
I'd love to help, I just don't have the time right now.
I am pretty sure uMatrix works fine on Firefox/Windows: it's all HTML/CSS/JS code, and thus OS agnostic -- uMatrix does not care about OS.
Firefox is supposed to resize the popup panel according to the size of its content -- the resizing is Firefox's responsibility, it's out of reach of uMatrix.
I believe there are issues in Firefox with regards to using multiple monitors with different DPI. In any case, you should report your issue to buzgilla.mozilla.org.
Firefox limits the size of popups to 800x600 CSS pixels, which in theory should account for high DPI (are you using a high DPI display?).
Not sure what is going on here. What is your display resolution, zoom, and font size?
From [1]. I'm not sure what better fits the definition of selling out.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/google-and-others-reported...
> We receive some donations from our users, but our main source of revenue comes as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative. As detailed below, larger entities pay a licensing fee for the whitelisting services requested and provided to them.