Emerging Technology in the Philippines
Who founded Anti-Ad Blocking? Michael Gundlach - A developer in the US, created AdBlock in 2009. With around 250,000 users as of this writing, AdBlock for Google Chrome overtook Firefox as the most used addon on Monday (February 1, 2010). The accomplishment followed over two months of frantic work by its developer, Michael Gundlach, during which time he was profiled by the New York Times, received raving reviews from users, and rescued the Earth from a massive comet. How did Michael Gundlach started making AdBlock for Chrome? In an interview with Nathan Long, he stated that, " I was reading the Google blog at work and noticed that they said extensions were available in the beta channel... When I searched for AdBlock on the extensions page, I saw that it didn't exist." Then all throughout the year to December, he did not stop coding on making AdBlock and this received feedbacks. What is Anti-Ad Blocking? In spite of a user's AdBlock tool being active, anti-AdBlock sol...