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Chrome AdBlock Joining Acceptable Ads Program (And Sold To Anonymous Company)

Posted by timothy on from the to-whom-is-the-question dept.

basscomm writes: Hot on the heels of the formation of the independent board to oversee "acceptable ads", users of the popular Chrome ad blocking extension, AdBlock, got notice that AdBlock is participating in the program, and that acceptable ads are being turned on by default. At the bottom of the announcement, buried in the fine print is word that AdBlock has been sold, but nobody will say to whom.

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  1. APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ does whitelists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    See subject: Vs. that, & guys from Malwarebytes' hphosts who recommend & host my program here http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... actively update vs. that occurring A LOT!

    Those guys (with help from Henry Hertz Hobbitt from hostfile.org, this guy is GOOD - really good @ it) more regularly on their end in the data!

    That's since that beats that to the punch quickly than myself recompiling!

    (See, my filters in my code? They have gotten BIG (10k lines easily of 30k total in the program fully error trapped) against that, & SO big, that I literally had to write a program to WRITE MY PROGRAM in the filter section, lol!)

    Plus, later during rebuilds, I add their AND MY filters I find OCCASIONALLY that might 'break' say, a site captcha logon (which we've hit before & correct against thus...).

    * Nicest part is, hosts are EASILY HAND-EDITED & the data is EASY TO UNDERSTAND, far moreso than adblock regex or DNS rules tables - massively LESS complexity & easy understanding!

    (Especially since my program produces a host minus comment bloat & alphabetically sorted, even notepad.exe's edit menu FIND function can edit the hosts file for you vs such offending entires you may not like).

    APK

    P.S.=>

    "But APK isn't wrong" - by cfalcon (779563) on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#50657891)

    Thanks, & I know - what evidences it for me? Well, easy: Trolls ALWAYS "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. this FAIR CHALLENGE I put to them to validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... - they NEVER do validly technically prove that wrong &, lol... I love it!