Recap on AdSweep

29th December, 2009

Begin October this year, I took over maintaining AdSweep from the original author, Charles Landemaine. By then, I had tried to have it set up with an external database, but for a reason that is still not clear to me, it failed to work for a lot of people. So, I’d returned to the original AdSweep engine.

Since then, I have received a lot of feedback, with sites with unblocked ads and also sites which it breaks. I am currently working on updating them all and hoping I can release near January. However, seeing as this is the holiday season, I can’t make any guarentees. I’m planning to incorporate a button next to Chrome’s address bar which would disable AdSweep for that website on your computer, as a hotfix.

Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to discuss something else. AdSweep’s home gets about 2 000 visitors daily. This also means the extension is downloaded a lot, which costs bandwidth. I’m fine with that, but it does bring bills I need to pay and as a student, I don’t have too much money to spare. So while I can understand not a lot of people have the cash, if you do, please donate any amount you feel you can spare. It will help me make the time to work on AdSweep.

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4 Responses to “Recap on AdSweep”

  • Christian Ide says:
    29th December, 2009 at 17:37

    Thanks a lot for your great work on Adsweep. I use it with Chrome/Chromium and it works like a charm.

    Greetings and a Happy New Year
    Christian

  • Riam Fairbank says:
    29th December, 2009 at 19:04

    Thanks for making such a useful and amazing addon that will hopefully continue being awesome.

  • alexandrojv says:
    29th December, 2009 at 22:49

    Really thanks so much for this super simple to use ad remover, all the others are so complex!

    As a student myself I know what it is like, but if you need any help with the chrome extension let me know, I am currently working on one myself, so I know some of the tricks. Well let me know if anything

    Also, have you thought about making it open source?

  • arienh4 says:
    29th December, 2009 at 22:51

    It’s already open-source, even though I’ve probably not mentioned it clearly enough. It’s released under the MIT Licence, you can see the source by opening the AdSweep.js link.

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