For some reason, the acceptable ads program from eyeo led them to allow some of the worst, chumboxy paid content - as far as I remember. Coincidentally, the ef

For some reason, the acceptable ads program from eyeo led them to allow some of the worst, chumboxy paid content - as far as I remember. Coincidentally, the effort was paid for by the very same companies that ended up on the whitelist. From the outside, at least, this gave the impression that the whitelisting was simply paid for and covered up by a fig leaf process. I haven't checked in a while, but that program always struck me as deeply problematic. Today, that no longer matters, as ublock origin has emerged as a time-tested, no-compromise, user-choice content blocking solution.