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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 92963" data-source="post: 978889">Reason why it took so long, might have five seasons:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The usage of AdBlockers reached it top in 2016, since then the percentage of webbrowsers with an adblocker installed dropped from 60 percent in 2016 to 40 percent now. In a shrinking market the switch rate (or user switch willingness when existing product seems to do the job) also tends to be lower.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gorhill transferred maintainance of uBlock in 2015 to&nbsp; Chris Aljoudi, but forked it again with uBlockOrigin in 2016, because of donation discussions and growing maintenance backlog.&nbsp; Low awareness of this controverse and probable slow migration by average users (from uBlock to uBO) might be a second reason.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The existence of many&nbsp; uBlockOrigin copy cat ripp-offs in official chrome and firefox store (some also with over 100.000 installs) might also have cannibalized uBO&#039;s growth rate.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">AdGuard also snooped a substantial part of the shrinking adblock market away from Adblock/uBlock (in a shrinking market the growth of one product is achieved at the expense of other products marketshare).</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Market share of Firefox itself also eroded over the years due to the rise of Chrome alternatives.</li>
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[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 92963, post: 978889"] Reason why it took so long, might have five seasons: [LIST=1] [*]The usage of AdBlockers reached it top in 2016, since then the percentage of webbrowsers with an adblocker installed dropped from 60 percent in 2016 to 40 percent now. In a shrinking market the switch rate (or user switch willingness when existing product seems to do the job) also tends to be lower. [*]Gorhill transferred maintainance of uBlock in 2015 to Chris Aljoudi, but forked it again with uBlockOrigin in 2016, because of donation discussions and growing maintenance backlog. Low awareness of this controverse and probable slow migration by average users (from uBlock to uBO) might be a second reason. [*]The existence of many uBlockOrigin copy cat ripp-offs in official chrome and firefox store (some also with over 100.000 installs) might also have cannibalized uBO's growth rate. [*]AdGuard also snooped a substantial part of the shrinking adblock market away from Adblock/uBlock (in a shrinking market the growth of one product is achieved at the expense of other products marketshare). [*]Market share of Firefox itself also eroded over the years due to the rise of Chrome alternatives. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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