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Comment by romanovcode | Hacker News Reader

Who is even using this anymore? ABP lost all its cred when it took money from ad business.

Just use uBlock Origin.

I used ABP until very recently; I was skeptical of the acceptable ads program but it has not really been abused and anyone could opt out at any time. The point of ad blockers was not to actually block every ad, it was to keep the web sane and stop the trend toward increasingly intrusive advertising. ABP accomplished that goal even with the acceptable ads program.

> Just use uBlock Origin.

Has there always been a uBlock extension for Safari? That was my last holdout for using ABP. I've now manually installed the downloadable extension but ABP is prominently displayed in Apple's Safari extension app store.

The port seems to be in a separate repo until it's considered stable. The development of the port is quite a bit behind and doesn't seem to be actively maintained. I guess no one wants it badly enough to maintain it themself until it's stable.

It is even on Edge so it would be super-weird if it would not be on Safari.

Unfortunately more people are using ABP than uB. The common person googles "adblock", and ABP is usually the first result.

To be fair, that's because "adblock" basically defined the space. They are entitled to the name recognition, since they built it themselves. It's a bit like WinZip vs 7-Zip.

Good hypothesis, but I suspect it is because of the search algorithm matching words

Yes, but "adblock" wasn't a word before AdBlock appeared, that's my point.

However, "adblock" was a word before "AdBlock Plus" appeared.

Any idea if uBlock Origin protects against session-replay?:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...

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