Choose an adblocker carefully. The two most popular ones are not necessarily the best choices. Most popular one is paid unknown millions by adtech to enable trackers by default. Furthermore, no one knows who owns the second most popular one.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/948991510372007936 …
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Replying to @profcarroll
What are these two most popular ones of which you speak? AdBlock and uBlock? Which one gets paid millions?
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Replying to @brianstorms @profcarroll
This. When making claims like
@profcarroll did you need to be specific about which software you're talking about.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker @brianstorms
AdBlockPlus is owned by Eyeo which runs the Acceptable Ads program paid by Google, Criteo, Taboola, Amazon, etc but details are too opaque for my taste. No one seems to know who owns AdBlock. Not a good look.
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Replying to @profcarroll @brianstorms
Thanks. I've considered them both complete junk for a long time now. UBO is what everyone I know recommends.
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