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Adblock Plus (ABP) is an open-source content-filtering and ad blocking extension developed by Eyeo GmbH (Wladimir Palant), a German software developer. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for mobile), Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser and Android. In 2011, AdBlock Plus and Eyeo attracted considerable controversy from its users when it introduced an "Acceptable Ads" program to allow "certain non-intrusive ads" (such as Google AdWords) to be allowed under the extension's default settings. In 2013, the Financial Times reported that Google, Microsoft, and other major companies in the web advertising business had been paying Eyeo upwards of $120 million per year for their ads to be whitelisted. As a result, developers have created competing adblockers such as UBlock which do not have Acceptable Ads programs. ==History and statistics== Michael McDonald created Adblock Plus 0.5, which improved on the original Adblock by incorporating the following features: * whitelisting * support for blocking background images * subscription to filters with a fixed address and automatic updates * the ability to hide HTML elements, allowing a greater range of images to be blocked * the ability to hide ads on a per-site basis, instead of globally * memory leak fixes * improvements to the user interface McDonald discontinued development and transferred the name to Wladimir Palant, who released Adblock Plus 0.6 with a rewritten codebase in January 2006. ''PC World'' chose Adblock Plus as one of the 100 best products of 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = PC World )〕 Adblock Plus for Google Chrome has been available since December 2010 and has over 10 million users. It has also become the most popular extension for Firefox, with around 18 million users as of March 2014. Adblock Plus was released as an app for Android devices in November 2012. On March 3, 2013, the Android app was removed from the Google Play Store along with similar ad blocking apps. Some apps remain in the Play Store with the caveat that they require root access in order to function. Adblock Plus, while not in the Play Store, is still available on the app's website. User's can download the .apk file directly and install it as a third-party app if they allow "Unknown Sources" in Android settings. Adblock Plus has been available for Internet Explorer since August 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adblock Plus 1.0 for Internet Explorer released )〕 Adblock Plus has been available for Safari since January 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adblock Plus for Safari Beta released )〕 Adblock Plus has been available for Yandex Browser since December 2014. An Adblock Plus browser beta version was made available in May 2015, called the "(Adblock Browser )". Adblock Browser 1.0 was released on 7 September 2015, based on Firefox for mobile. Adblock Plus has created an independent board to review what is an acceptable ad and what is not 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adblock Plus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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