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    Adblock Plus now sells ads

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12...-now-sells-ads
    It’ll begin doing that through an ad marketplace, which will allow blogs and other website operators to pick out so-called “acceptable” ads and place them on their pages. If a visitor using Adblock Plus comes to the page, they’ll be shown those “acceptable ads,” instead of whatever ads the site would normally run.

    The marketplace is a extension of the Acceptable Ads program that Adblock Plus has been running since 2011. Since then, the ad blocker has defaulted to “whitelisting” approved ads, so that they show up even when users have the blocker turned on. But the program has been fairly limited in scope, since publishers and ad networks need to specifically work with (and pay) Adblock Plus to have their ads deemed acceptable. It’s a time-consuming process, Williams emphasized, which limits how many websites can sign up to display ads to would-be blockers.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...ceptable-ones/
    Eyeo GmbH, the company that makes the popular Adblock Plus software, will today start selling the very thing many of its users hate—advertisements. Today, the company is launching a self-service platform to sell "pre-whitelisted" ads that meet its "acceptable ads" criteria. The new system will let online publishers drag and drop advertisements that meet Eyeo's expectations for size and labeling.
    That's why many of us now use uBlock Origin instead of ABP. Lower memory use, plus no "whitelisted" ads.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...ublock-origin/
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...jbkeiagm?hl=en

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    Why I switched to uBlock origin a long time ago.

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    I switched too.

    You can now shop on ConsumerReports.com for products tested by them. The link leads you to the manufacturer's site. The end of an institution.

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