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by Animats 1 day ago
My Ad Limiter add-on is down to 19 users on Firefox. Used to be thousands. It won't work on Chrome at all now. I'm shutting down SiteTruth, after almost 20 years.[1]

[1] https://www.sitetruth.com
2 comments
KetoManx64 1 hour ago
I hate to be the guy to say this, but uBlockOrigin outcompeted you half a decade ago. It's the first extension Install on a fresh install and I have never heard of your extension or site.
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eps 16 hours ago
Fwiw, I've been using Firefox for 20+ years, I hate ads with passion and yet I never heard of your add-on until just now.

I don't remember what I've used before uBlock Origin, but since its appearance it's basically solved the ad blocking on Firefox and became the de-facto standard for the browser.

You probably lost all your users to it, rather that they all stopped using FF.

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Sohcahtoa82 7 hours ago
> I don't remember what I've used before uBlock Origin

Most likely AdBlock Plus. It was basically the standard until they started allowing advertisers to pay to not have their ads blocked.

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