[kleptako]

What is even the point of Adblock Plus now? uBlock Origin seems so much better

[hood_syntax]

It's better than nothing for the non-expert users who don't know it's worse than other options available right now. Pretty much the only worthy use case for it

[squeaky-clean]

Yep, it just has a much better name than uBlock Origin.

[Jonnax]

You're asking what the point in developing alternatives are?

Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6.

It looks like it was also rewritten for webextensions from that blog post.

[Spivak]

But AB isn't an alternative with pros and cons so much as it's a worse version of uBO.

[squeaky-clean]

> Microsoft said the web was done at Internet Explorer 6.

Yeah? And this is like OP asking "Now that Edge exists, what's the point of IE 6?"

[Moru]

The point is (as with so many things) money. If I remember right, ABP makes money by allowing "friendly" ads if they get payed for it.