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Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can ghostery/adblock do 17 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. DNS amplification attacks
    8.) Protect vs. trackers
    9.) Protect vs. spam
    10.) Protect vs. phishing
    11.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    12.) Get you past a dnsbl
    13.) Keep you off dns request logs
    14.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    15.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    16.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    17.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * "?"

    APK

    P.S.=> ANSWER ="NO" to each above on Ghostery/AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    BOTH do far less than hosts do & less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less:

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...

    Ghostery's Advertiser owned - "A fox guards the henhouse"-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    Both add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    The BEST in the antiviruses (MalwareBytes) http://www.av-test.org/en/news... recommend & host it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...

    ... apk