Whois & Analysis for ublock.org

Ad blocking or ad filtering is a type of software (or less commonly, a computer hardware device), that can remove or alter advertising content from a webpage, website, or a mobile app.

Ad blockers are available for a range of computer platforms, including desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers and smartphones.

A variety of methods have been used for blocking advertisements.

The benefits of this software are wide-ranging and the use of ad blocking software is increasing.

However, many media owners (publishers) rely on advertising to fund the free content that they provide to users.

Some have taken counter-measures against users who block ads on the sites they visit, for example Forbes.

uBlock Origin (pronounced you-block) is a free and open source, cross-platform browser extension for content-filtering, including ad-blocking.

The extension is available for several browsers: Safari (Beta), Chrome, Chromium, Edge (Beta), Firefox, and Opera.

uBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites, and is reported to be much less memory-intensive than other extensions with similar functionality.

uBlock Origin's stated purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own (content-filtering) choices.

Mozilla Firefox (or simply Firefox) is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation.

Firefox is available for Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, with its Firefox for Android available for Android (formerly Firefox for mobile, it also ran on the discontinued Firefox OS); where all of these versions use the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.

An additional version, Firefox for iOS, was released in late 2015, but this version does not use Gecko due to Apple's restrictions limiting third-party web browsers to the WebKit-based layout engine built into iOS.

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple based on the WebKit engine.

First released in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been included in iOS devices since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

It is the default browser on Apple devices.

A Windows version, now discontinued, was available from 2007 to 2012.

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

The computer industry has used the term "central processing unit" at least since the early 1960s.

Traditionally, the term "CPU" refers to a processor, more specifically to its processing unit and control unit (CU), distinguishing these core elements of a computer from external components such as main memory and I/O circuitry.