🔁Google's second big Android 16 update is rolling out for Pixel phones: Here’s EVERYTHING new!

The Android 16 QPR2 update brings new customization options, notification features, lock screen widgets, and MUCH more!

At ~4,000 words, this is the MOST comprehensive post covering all the new features/changes in QPR2!

Click👇for all the details!

🔗https://androidauthority.com/android-16-qpr2-features-3621204/

I almost forgot an upcoming anniversary. 20 years ago I wrote this comment complaining about the state of the AdBlock extension: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315754#c12. I’m trying to reconstruct from my emails what happened later (I didn’t archive IRC discussions unfortunately).

While the AdBlock devs claimed that everything was fine, on 2005-11-29 Mozilla was contacting everyone listed as an AdBlock contributor (myself included), trying to find someone who could update it for the Firefox 1.5 release. Mozilla already made the necessary adjustments on addons.mozilla.org but back then update manifests were self-hosted, and somebody had to modify the file on the AdBlock website. The only person with the necessary access was rue, the project maintainer at the time, everybody else could only stand by helplessly.

At some point over the next two weeks I convinced rue to let me improve code quality of AdBlock, with improved maintainability as one of the goals. I’m not sure when I started this work which turned into a complete rewrite (yes, the codebase was that bad) but on 2005-12-16 I was looking for people to help me test it, saying that the extension would be ready by tomorrow. It actually took one day longer, on 2005-12-18 I posted an almost finished version in a Russian-language web developers forum: https://web.archive.org/web/20061011145831/http://xpoint.ru/forums/programming/XUL/thread/34705.xhtml

That’s when rue got cold feet, they considered the changes too extensive. Things went quickly downhill from there, and I think one of the closing comments from them went along the lines of “developing a browser extension for millions of users takes more than a big mouth.” I don’t think AdBlock ever had millions of users.

On 2005-12-19 I was already trying to see where Mozilla stands on yet another AdBlock fork being published (a fork called Adblock Plus already existed, though it wasn’t listed on addons.mozilla.org). On 2005-12-21 I contacted the developers of Adblock Plus, asking them whether they would allow me to use the name of their project so that there aren’t two competing AdBlock forks around.

By 2006-01-10 I was done rewriting the rest of the code, and an allowlist functionality was added as well (originally I was prohibited from adding this feature, it being planned for AdBlock 0.6 which never got released). This is the changelog which I was sharing at that point: https://palant.info/temp/ABP_changelog.txt

On 2006-01-13 I got a permission from Adblock Plus devs to publish my code as Adblock Plus 0.6, sort of as an update to their project. At the same time rue seemed to have a change of heart once again, saying that I would be allowed to publish my rewrite as AdBlock 0.7. I didn’t quite trust this arrangement (rightfully so), so on 2006-01-14 I submitted an application for an Adblock Plus project page on mozdev.org.

Adblock Plus 0.6 has finally been published on 2006-01-17. The rest is history…

#Adblock #AdblockPlus #history #Mozilla #extensions

Axel Springer klagt gegen Eyeo: Adblocker sollen angeblich gegen Pressefreiheit und Urheberrecht verstoßen – weil Webseiten »nicht wie beabsichtigt« angezeigt würden. In Wahrheit geht es darum, Nutzerrechte auszuhebeln, um Zwangswerbung und Tracking durchzusetzen. Nicht Journalismus steht hier im Fokus, sondern Kontrolle und Profit. Ein Grund von vielen, Bild & Co. zu meiden.

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/bundesgerichtshof-cheatsoftware-ist-legal-werbeblocker-bleiben-vorerst-in-der-grauzone-a-b542ef58-f80b-44c9-8764-7b7f38c6178e

/kuk

New Signal update just dropped

#SignalGate #USpolitics #WorldPolitics

Interesting news: Eyeo won their appeal against Alex Springer: meaning HTML is not a programming language, and ad blocking isn't subject to copyright infringement. (In this jurisdiction.)

https://resources.eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-appeal