Adblock Plus: The Nuclear Plug-In | Linux Today

Adblock Plus: The Nuclear Plug-In

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 7, 2007

“Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases
advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app–or at
least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular. Right now, it
sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the
businesses it would happily devour.

“The plug-in, writes Noam Cohen in today’s New York Times, has
the potential to be an ‘extreme menace to the online-advertising
business model…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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