Talk:Adblock Plus/Archives/2015

Acceptable Ads

This change goes against mozilla addons guidelines. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/reviews

     the features must adhere to the following requirements:
   * The add-on description must clearly state what changes the add-on makes.
   * All changes must be opt-in, meaning the user must take non-default action to enact the change.
   * The opt-in dialog must clearly state the name of the add-on requesting the change.
   * Uninstalling the add-on restores the user's original settings if they were changed.

This feature is opt-out(enabled by default) not opt-in(disabled by default) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.136.111.238 (talk) 15:25, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

You should consider the entire text instead of quoting something out of context. Here's the portion of the text that's missing:

 Whenever an add-on includes any unexpected feature that:
 * compromises user privacy or security (like sending data to third parties),
 * changes default settings like the homepage or search engine, or
 * changes settings or features in other add-ons or deactivates them altogether
 the features must adhere to the following requirements:
 ...

None of those points apply to Acceptable Ads. Greiner12 (talk) 01:54, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

AdBlock April fools 2012?

"Adblock now shows you cats instead of ads". This seems to be everywhere.--만두 (talk) 07:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

This was an April Fool joke by AdBlock and has therefore nothing to do with Adblock Plus (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock#CatBlock). Greiner12 (talk) 01:47, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Original Adblock was confused with AdBlock (a.k.a. BetaFish Adblocker)

The first paragraph contains the line "It is a fork of the original Adblock extension, developed by Michael McDonald, which is most recently had an update on March 11, 2015." However, the original Adblock extensions saw its last stable release in 2003 and was discontinued in 2007 (see repository history under http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/adblock/).

The stated date (March 11, 2015) happens to be the same date when AdBlock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock) 2.19 was released which is why I assume that the author of this sentence confused those two separate extensions. Therefore I'd suggest that this sentence should be changed to "It is a fork of the original Adblock extension, developed by Michael McDonald, which has been discontinued." Greiner12 (talk) 02:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)