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Adblock Plus is the most useful piece of shareware I’ve ever had

Feb6

And I’ve sent Wladimir Palant $10. I hope you’ll do the same.

A sage I know claims that a browser is merely an extension of Adblock Plus, just as Ubuntu is merely an extension of Apache2.

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