Adblock Plus sells out its users for money - unblocks ads

[qubit]

I was wondering why I was beginning to see a certain amount of annoying animated ads with AD+ installed. Now I know it's because they are selling out their users for money.

Time to dump this garbage and get a better ad blocker. If I had wanted to see ads I wouldn't have installed it in the first place. Note that I'm only bothered by animated ads, which most are. If they had nice stationary banner ads I'd never block them and think they add character to some sites, especially tech sites like this one.



ADBLOCK PLUS has been taking money from major tech companies to have their ads unblocked.

Google was the first company revealed to have paid for whitelisting with the popular advert blocking extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but now it appears that Amazon and Microsoft have also paid Adblock Plus for whitelisting.

Read the rest at The Inquirer

 

[Maban]

The negativity over this is some of the dumbest I've seen. These ads are part of their manually selected non-intrusive whitelist which you can disable whenever you want. If you don't like their whitelist, then create your own.

 

[rooivalk]

you could use adblock edge.

 

[Mark Smith]

Just use the hosts file from MVPS..... If you don't mind seeing "This page could not be displayed" all over the pages you visit, lol
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts2.htm

 

[95Viper]

Old news... The Inquirer is. sorta, late with this story; like, about four years. I believe it was first done in 2011 or so, when verson 2 came out and was reported all over the place, then.
It is not like they are hiding anything or it is some conspiracy... they provide that info right on their website.
And, they, even, tell you how to turn on blocking for the "acceptable" ads.

 

[Schmuckley]

non-issue since i read this thread

 

[squallvn1]

I have been using AdBlock since the first version, at the start the ADS shall be blocked manually, so, we will do it again.

 

[RejZoR]

It's an optional whitelist that ANYONE can disable. There is also AdBlock Edge that doesn't even have this feature...

 

[Drone]

If that white/black/whateva list can be edited then why Google and Microsoft waste their money on this?

 

[xfia]

I bet most people dont even edit it.. I mean I just disable it on sites I like to visit and if something comes up I dont like then I right click and block it.

 

[Octopuss]

I was wondering why I was beginning to see a certain amount of annoying animated ads with AD+ installed. Now I know it's because they are selling out their users for money.

Time to dump this garbage and get a better ad blocker. If I had wanted to see ads I wouldn't have installed it in the first place. Note that I'm only bothered by animated ads, which most are. If they had nice stationary banner ads I'd never block them and think they add character to some sites, especially tech sites like this one.



ADBLOCK PLUS has been taking money from major tech companies to have their ads unblocked.

Google was the first company revealed to have paid for whitelisting with the popular advert blocking extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but now it appears that Amazon and Microsoft have also paid Adblock Plus for whitelisting.

Read the rest at The Inquirer

Uh, stop being hysterical.
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

I couldn't give two fucks about how much money they make from whatever source (it's well deserved anyway!) as long as these ads are opt in/out, which they are. End of story.

You're late to the party anyway.

 

[qubit]

Uh, stop being hysterical.
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

I couldn't give two fucks about how much money they make from whatever source (it's well deserved anyway!) as long as these ads are opt in/out, which they are. End of story.

You're late to the party anyway.

I see someone's got a big fat chip on their shoulder lol.

 

[Octopuss]

What?

 

[Maban]

I dislike fear-mongering posts such as this, qubit. ABP is simply expediting the process of non-intrusive ad selection. They have to meet the exact same criteria to be deemed non-intrusive. No one is paying them to get anything they wouldn't already allow by policy on there.

If you're seeing an animated ad, then it's likely that either you have configured ABP incorrectly or a mistake was made in the selection process. In case of the latter, instead of being a douche by spreading your unfounded hate of an already existent policy, simply report the offending ad to ABP and let them fix it. You wouldn't go around telling people not to use a product because of a single failure like some people we have seen recently (ahem...<user_name_here>).

 

[Arctucas]

I used AdBlock with FF, but it became increasingly slower and slower to load webpages.

I got rid of AdBlock, and only use NoScript and Ghostery. No ads anywhere, and FF loads pages with no delay.

 

[TheHunter]

you could use adblock edge.

Just switched back to this.

ublock is also a cool alternative, although its still in beta..
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

 

[Maban]

"Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without "acceptable ads" feature."

Could someone tell me the point of ABE? ABP has an option to disable the white list so I really don't understand the need for ABE.

 

[Solaris17]

"Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without "acceptable ads" feature."

Could someone tell me the point of ABE? ABP has an option to disable the white list so I really don't understand the need for ABE.

If I wanted adds blocked and their was an alternative I didn't need to fuck with to do so why wouldn't I do it?

 

[Caring1]

I used AdBlock with FF, but it became increasingly slower and slower to load webpages.

I got rid of AdBlock, and only use NoScript and Ghostery. No ads anywhere, and FF loads pages with no delay.

That's more a problem with your system than with Adblock, mine runs fine with it installed on all my computers, no slowing at all.

 

[qubit]

Old news... The Inquirer is. sorta, late with this story; like, about four years. I believe it was first done in 2011 or so, when verson 2 came out and was reported all over the place, then.
It is not like they are hiding anything or it is some conspiracy... they provide that info right on their website.
And, they, even, tell you how to turn on blocking for the "acceptable" ads.

I think the difference here is who'se gotten onto that paid whitelist, which would help to explain the increase in ads I'm seeing. Other sites are also reporting the same thing.

I dislike fear-mongering posts such as this, qubit. ABP is simply expediting the process of non-intrusive ad selection. They have to meet the exact same criteria to be deemed non-intrusive. No one is paying them to get anything they wouldn't already allow by policy on there.

If you're seeing an animated ad, then it's likely that either you have configured ABP incorrectly or a mistake was made in the selection process. In case of the latter, instead of being a douche by spreading your unfounded hate of an already existent policy, simply report the offending ad to ABP and let them fix it. You wouldn't go around telling people not to use a product because of a single failure like some people we have seen recently (ahem...<user_name_here>).

Look, I've noticed some ads getting through, I haven't whitelisted anything in AB+ and then I see this article about Microsoft and Google paying to get on their whitelist so I post about it to let others know about this. It's as simple as that. Really, don't read too much into it.

Calling me a douche who is "fearmongering" and "spreading unfounded hate" are ridiculous and annoying accusations from yourself and is actually a personal attack which you can't do here, as you well know. I can quite easily say that you're an idiot who's simply polluting my thread with hate statements. See how it feels, hmmm? Let's have no more of this from you, thanks.

Just switched back to this.

ublock is also a cool alternative, although its still in beta..
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

[Nullifier]

I haven't seen any ads as of yet, maybe because of my version.
But if they start popping up what do I need to modify to get rid of them? I'm using chrome.

 

[OneMoar]

filters are configurable and these fall under the "allow some unintrusive advertising" option in ABE
untick that option and away you go
as usual qubit is trolling with sensationalist headlines that he Googled up businessinsider is about 3 years late to the party on this one

 

[qubit]

I haven't seen any ads as of yet, maybe because of my version.
But if they start popping up what do I need to modify to get rid of them? I'm using chrome.

From the looks of it, you can just turn off the whitelist / "acceptable ads" list, or perhaps edit it. I haven't gotten around to fiddling around with it yet.

You may want to try Adblock Edge, posted about above, which doesn't use an "acceptable ads" list.

 

[MT Alex]

filters are configurable and these fall under the "allow some unintrusive advertising" option in ABE
untick that option and away you go
as usual qubit is trolling with sensationalist headlines that he Googled up businessinsider is about 3 years late to the party on this one

The Jerry Springer of TPU!

 

[qubit]

filters are configurable and these fall under the "allow some unintrusive advertising" option in ABE
untick that option and away you go
as usual qubit is trolling with sensationalist headlines that he Googled up businessinsider is about 3 years late to the party on this one

Pot calling the kettle black, much? All you ever do is troll people and make personal attacks. I've had loads of your troll posts deleted and you've been infracted and banned too (for over a year! ) for your childish behaviour many times. Looks like you're angling for another ban, lol.

I'm not "3 years too late", either. This is different and is being reported by other sites currently too, you idiot. Get your facts straight.