Who owns Adblock (Chrome)?
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:05 pm
There isn't a lot of clarity on who owns the Adblock application which also recently acquired ublock.org. Michael Gundlach sold the site sometime back but there was not much clarity on who it was sold to.
Development seems to have mostly died in recent times with no new features being added and the addition of "acceptable ads" has also made it more confusing as to whether Eyeo (ABP) is the owner or not/who the revenue is going to.
If you look at the company behind the extension "BetaFish" it was registered by Gabriel Cubbage who quit sometime back. The current CEO is Matthew Maier in California (the company is registered in Texas).
The purchase of ublock.org wasn't announced by Adblock as well.
I think there should be more transparency regarding the extension as such.
Development seems to have mostly died in recent times with no new features being added and the addition of "acceptable ads" has also made it more confusing as to whether Eyeo (ABP) is the owner or not/who the revenue is going to.
If you look at the company behind the extension "BetaFish" it was registered by Gabriel Cubbage who quit sometime back. The current CEO is Matthew Maier in California (the company is registered in Texas).
The purchase of ublock.org wasn't announced by Adblock as well.
I think there should be more transparency regarding the extension as such.