Over 100 million active users of AdBlock Plus
THE NUMBER Adblock Plus, the software from Cologne-based provider Eyeo, has now been downloaded around one billion times worldwide, as Eyeo CEO Till Faida reported at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 conference.
Adblock Plus is the most popular adblocker.Provider Eyeo reports that over 100 million people actively use its Adblock Plus solution. With the availability of the ad blocker for Microsoft's Edge browser (albeit only in a test version for the time being), further growth is also in sight. "Adblock Plus started as an open source hobby project a few years ago, and to be at this point today as a Cologne-based start-up makes us incredibly proud," explains Faida enthusiastically via a press release. "While growth remains stable in countries such as Germany and France, we are seeing an enormous increase in users in the USA, the UK and many emerging markets who want to regain more control over what they see on the Internet."
