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I was made aware of this through someone on Twitter: Martin, the huge uptick was quite certainly because of the article from Stiftung Warentest which reportedly favoured uBlock Origin: > The huge uptick of downloads at the end of August seems to correlate with the release of the WebExtensions versions of uBlock Origin

If the only bother is a screen filled with garbage then ABP still performs nicely even if not as well as uBO. Anyone who’s concerned by privacy (and security) should consider uBO.

But we all know that the Web has changed ever since ABP was launched and that the combat includes 3rd-party sites, scripts, even CSSs, fonts, data delivered to them via simple connection etc etc.

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A gem.Īn Adblock Plus decline? I share the possibilities mentioned in the article, I have no idea of the cause and if this fits in a general trend. I never removed uBO, never even thought of it, it’s the main add-on for my browser, the very first I’d install. I much appreciated the state of mind of its developer (as I felt it) in which his add-on seemed to fit perfectly. Running it I found how well it was carried out, how intuitive using it was. As soon as I discovered uBO on AMO (practically at its launch I guess) I knew it’d be love :) Reading the introduction on AMO made me realize how limpid, well thought the add-on was. I had quickly enough discovered that if ABP handled nicely the ads, it handled them once downloaded but wouldn’t block 3rd-party sites according to the user’s directives in the first place. I had switched from ABP to uBO not because of the former’s ‘Acceptable Ads’ (it’s a concept, arguable, and it’s removable), not for less used resources with the latter, but because uBlock Origin managed connections to 3rd-party sites. Now You: What is your take on this development?

Could it be a change in reporting on Mozilla AMO? It is likely that uBlock Origin gained users who migrated from Adblock Plus to the new extension, but this does not explain what the remaining millions of users did. Interest in Adblock Plus dropped slightly according to Google Trends, but uBlock Origin interest increased only slightly however.

Rise in popularity of uBlock Origin which may have had an impact on Adblock Plus's performance.

While it is possible to disable the program in Adblock Plus, some users may have had troubles doing so, or made the decision to move to another content blocker instead.

Adblock Plus's Acceptable Ads program might be a reason.

Lets take a look at possible explanations: To come back to the initial question: why did Adblock Plus's daily user number drop by several million users while similar extensions did not see a drop but an increase instead?

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Similarly, Adblock Plus managed to increase its daily downloads at around the same time, but both download counts did fall to previous levels shortly thereafter. The huge uptick of downloads at the end of August seems to correlate with the release of the WebExtensions versions of uBlock Origin.