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Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Re: Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Post by cowchase »

TuxLyn wrote: post #2

No worries, you can use forked plugin called "AdBlock Edge" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ or edit filter lists your self ^_^

Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/

Re: Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Post by TuxLyn »

cowchase wrote: post #3
TuxLyn wrote: post #2

No worries, you can use forked plugin called "AdBlock Edge" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ or edit filter lists your self ^_^

Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/

This was bound to happen, they where just waiting for the right amount of money. It will be interesting to see what they say about this news :) Probebly "no comment".

Re: Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Post by louhike »

TuxLyn wrote: post #2

No worries, you can use forked plugin called "AdBlock Edge" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ or edit filter lists your self ^_^

For Google Chrome, there is "AdBlock" without the "Plus": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiob...

Re: Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Post by bhouston »

jroes wrote: post #6

Wait a second. Didn't ABP have a big donation page it would take you to after installing? I remember donating. This is unbelievable.

There are few people that wouldn't be corrupted by $30M. I'm sure the total donations, even for a crazy popular plugin, were fairly minuscule.

I do think that the developers were corrupted by offers from these web properties, I suspect they didn't initiate these discussions.

Re: Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

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Post by cowchase »

bhouston wrote: post #7
jroes wrote: post #6

Wait a second. Didn't ABP have a big donation page it would take you to after installing? I remember donating. This is unbelievable.

There are few people that wouldn't be corrupted by $30M. I'm sure the total donations, even for a crazy popular plugin, were fairly minuscule. I do think that the developers were corrupted by offers from these web properties, I suspect they didn't initiate these discussions.

> Whitelisting is free for all small and medium-sized websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

$30M surely is a lot of money for managing the "acceptable ads" list...

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