Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 3, 2015 @03:17AM from the backdoor-access dept.

RoccamOccam writes with the following news from The Register: Internet giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have reportedly paid AdBlock Plus to allow their ads to pass through its filter software. The confidential deals were confirmed by the Financial Times, the paper reported today [Paywalled]. From the Register's article: Eyeo GmbH, the German startup behind Adblock Plus, said it did not wish to comment. So far more than 300 million users have downloaded its software, it said. The add-on is free to download, with Eyeo generating revenue through its "whitelisting" programme. Companies can request their ads to be unblocked as long as they comply with AdBlock's "acceptable ads" policy. Large companies pay a fee for the service.

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Re:AdBlock's inferior crap vs. hosts by Cederic · 2015-02-03 04:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Your abusive spam based advertising for an anti-advertising service tells me that I can't trust your service and it would be fucking insane to let it anywhere near my computer.
Will you please shut the fuck up and get off slashdot?