Trademarks FTW. Great example of confusion in the marketplace.
Or is it? If Microsoft has trademarked just "Word", it is very strange that they don't enforce it against these folks:
especially in the light of how, some years ago, their lawyers swooped down like hawks on a Canadian named Mike Rowe who put up a "Mike Rowe Soft" consulting business and web site.
Also, I'm guessing Abi's limited reach is a factor. If Abi was suddenly taking a meaningful share of usage, they would probably get an angry lawyer letter.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/msT3z9naIEkfKFjrj2G3G67moS...
It's not uncommon that the remote servers hosting the lists fail to respond, which would cause the extension to "malfunction" if this happened after first install -- these lists are key for the proper functioning of the extension (at least in its default out-of-the-box settings). I want the extension to work properly immediately after 1st install.
The size of uBlock Origin as downloaded from AMO or Chrome store is ~1.5 MB (because it's compressed). The compressed package would be ~650 kB without the 3rd-party lists (the content of these lists are not javascript code).
It's there in the title of the plot. Did you even looked at the plot?
> Can you point to a source for that plot?
I did the plot few days ago, I simply installed all those extensions and calculated JS size on disk.
If I lied I would understand the downvotes but I didn't lie. I was also surprised that uBlock origin is bigger than adblock, especially when it's name sounds like something much much simpler and smaller but the fact is that size wise they are practically the same.
If I have to formally measure the response time difference in response in an interactive app, it's below the don't care threshold.
Why? ABP also has an "acceptable ads" program, where you can pay to have ads whitelisted if you follow certain rules:
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads
They are notably not transparent about who pays what & the like.
As far as I can tell, all Adblock is doing is following in Adblock Plus's footsteps.
[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock - uBlock Origin
[2]: http://ublock.org/ - uBlock
ABP is also supporting the independent acceptable ads manifesto.
AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock]
No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).