AdBlock Plus Takes Money From Google, Others Not to Filter Their Ads
AdBlock Plus, a popular browser extension, blocks most pop-up, video and banner ads. But according to a German news site, Google, which controls the largest online advertising network, has paid the makers of the software not to weed out some of its ads.
AdBlock Plus, a popular browser extension, blocks most pop-up, video and banner ads. But according to a German news site, Google, which controls the largest online advertising network, has paid the makers of the software not to weed out some of its ads.
AdBlock Plus seems to have been quietly changing its model from blocking all ads to policing which ads are “annoying” and which are “acceptable.” The larger ad networks have been funding its policing efforts by paying the its German parent company, Eyeo,
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