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How much money has AdBlock made?
eyeo GmbH revenue 2015-2019 Eyeo GmbH – the company behind AdBlock Plus – generated a revenue of 47 million euros in 2019, nearly 11 million euros in comparison to the result from 2018. The company earns money with charging websites for access to their whitelisting program called Acceptable Ads.
Who owns total AdBlock?
Michael Gundlach
AdBlock
| Original author(s) | Michael Gundlach |
|---|---|
| Available in | 51 languages |
| Type | Browser extension |
| License | GPLv3 |
| Website | getadblock.com |
Who invented AdBlock?
Michael Gundlach, a developer in the US, created AdBlock in 2009.
How much money does Google lose because of AdBlock?
PageFair, a company that works with publishers to measure the cost of ad blocking and to help them display less intrusive advertising that can be whitelisted by the ad blockers, estimates that Google lost out on $6.6 billion in global revenue to ad blockers last year.
How much money does youtube lose from ad blockers?
Their limited inventory is lost (at a rate between 18\% and even up to 60\%) due to adblockers. If they don’t do paid product placements, then the cut hurts even more since they are paid peanuts per impres… The truth is, Ad revenue is actually a very small portion of a YouTuber’s income. It helps, of course.
Is total AdBlock really free?
Total Adblock is the only option on our list that is not free. However, you can get this high-powered adblocking tool with a 7-day free trial. This adblocker filters out the biggest advertising nuisances you’ll experience across the web, including pop-ups and auto-play advertisements.
What was the first ad blocker?
The original version of Adblock (0.1) was written as a side project for Firefox by Danish software developer Henrik Aasted Sørensen, a university student at the time, in 2002. It hid image ads through user-defined filters from the page but did not actually prevent them from being downloaded.