Who Bought Adblock?
Cubbage became Adblock's CEO in October 15, shortly after the company was sold to an anonymous buyer. Adblock was previously owned by its founder Michael Gundlach, who left the company at that time.

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Hereof, who owns ad blocker?

AdBlock

Original author(s) Michael Gundlach
Developer(s) BetaFish Incorporated
Initial release December 8, 2009
Stable release Chrome, Safari, Opera: 3.46.0 / April 22, 2019 (Google Chrome)
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Furthermore, who makes AdBlock Plus? Wladimir Palant

Secondly, who created ad blocker?

Henrik Aasted Sørensen, now an independent software developer based in Copenhagen, wrote the source code for Adblock, which was the first widely used ad blocking extension back in 2002. He told us he developed it as a way to distract himself from his university work.

Is AdBlock legit?

It is true that today, the AdBlock extension is safe. We know that it will not steal your data, even though—as the other answers point out—it has the technical ability to do so. However, Chrome extensions are silently and automatically updated. The developer might sell the extension to a less scrupulous party.

Related Question Answers

Is Adblock legal?

Adblocking is legal, as is stated above. Circumvention of anti-Adblock scripts is illegal. Blocking jquery.com, which will knock out anti-adblock scripts on many sites, is no different than blocking the ads themselves, it is fully legal to do so.

Is Adblock malware?

If you installed AdBlock (or an extension with a similar name to AdBlock) from anywhere else, it may contain adware or malware that can infect your computer. AdBlock is open source software, which means that anyone can take our code and use it for their own, sometimes nefarious, purposes.
Alexander Ross

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