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Adblock Plus Payday – $ 30 million from Amazon, Ebay, Google and Yahoo

18 points by cowchase 13y ago

TuxLyn 13y ago
No worries, you can use forked plugin called "AdBlock Edge" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ or edit filter lists your self ^_^
- cowchase 13y ago
  Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/
  - TuxLyn 13y 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".
- louhike 13y ago
  For Google Chrome, there is "AdBlock" without the "Plus": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiob...
jroes 13y 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.
- bhouston 13y 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.
  - cowchase 13y 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 https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization $30M surely is a lot of money for managing the "acceptable ads" list...
suyash 13y 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.
- judk 13y ago
  How exactly where people "screwed"?

18 points by cowchase 13y ago

No worries, you can use forked plugin called "AdBlock Edge" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ or edit filter lists your self ^_^

cowchase 13y ago
Agreed. There was also AdBlock Lite, but they now recommend ABE too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock_lite/
- TuxLyn 13y 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".
louhike 13y ago
For Google Chrome, there is "AdBlock" without the "Plus": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiob...

jroes 13y 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.

bhouston 13y 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.
- cowchase 13y 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 https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization $30M surely is a lot of money for managing the "acceptable ads" list...

suyash 13y 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.

judk 13y ago
How exactly where people "screwed"?