Why is there no more adblock-plus package?

[sktsee]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:41:20 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Older versions of Ubuntu had a nice little adblock-plus package.
> Unfortunately it isn't available anymore, which means I have to install
> it manually for about 80 users.
> 
> Of course I can use Squid, but Adblock Plus had the advantage of having
> a per-site configuration. Sometimes users have to be able to temporarily
> disable Adblock.
> 

There is an unofficial (therefore unsupported) Mozilla Extensions PPA 
that's setup by the Mozilla Team responsible for packaging Mozilla apps 
for Ubuntu. It provides adblock plus, noscript, and a few other popular 
extensions.

PPA is here:
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/xul-ext

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sktsee