Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo (opens in new tab)

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18 pointscowchase12y ago9 comments

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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 ^_^

louhike12y ago

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

cowchaseOP12y ago

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

TuxLyn12y ago

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".

jroes12y ago

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

bhouston12y ago

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.

cowchaseOP12y ago

> 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...

suyash12y ago

Wow, if this is true, ad block plus definitely screwed a lot of people over :( I'm uninstalling it from all browsers today and looking for a good unbiased alternative.

judk12y ago

How exactly where people "screwed"?

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TuxLyn12y ago

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 ^_^

louhike12y ago

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

cowchaseOP12y ago

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

TuxLyn12y ago

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".

jroes12y ago

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

bhouston12y ago

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.

cowchaseOP12y ago

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

suyash12y ago

Wow, if this is true, ad block plus definitely screwed a lot of people over :( I'm uninstalling it from all browsers today and looking for a good unbiased alternative.

judk12y ago

How exactly where people "screwed"?

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