Google, Microsoft, And Amazon Are Paying To Get Around Adblock Plus: The Verge

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Link: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying to get around Adblock Plus | The Verge

 

Some of the web's biggest companies have been paying to get around Adblock Plus, according to a new report from Financial Times. Microsoft's Bing search ads and Taboola's "recommended links" box are among the ads that are currently slipping through Adblock Plus's filter, and FT confirms that it's the intentional result of a paid deal between the makers of Adblock and the owners of the ads. According to FT sources...

 

[FT's linked content in the article is paywalled]

[Arthur]

FT's linked content in the article is paywalled

Not for Google.

 

Google, Microsoft and Amazon pay to get around ad blocking tool - FT.com

Edited February 3, 2015 by Arthur

[sonofsanta]

Taboola can be blocked with the filters

||taboola.com
||taboolasyndication.com^$third-party

 

because that big block of articles about Tricks to Erase Wrinkles or Destroy Belly Fat with this One Weird Vegetable or the Slimming Pill Taking the UK by Storm is really bloomin' annoying.

 

Related: uBlock, the Memory-Friendly Ad-Blocker, Is Now Available for Firefox

[KrakowKaz]

Coming soon, Libre Ad-Block?

[CAM]

HAHAHA! The Verge think this is news? AdBlock state their program allows ads through if they meet certain criteria and everyone knows payments happen between ad bureaus and AdBlock. There is even a spin-off extension Adblock Edge that omits the whitelist entirely!

 

Such a cr*p news outlet. They just lift a piece of old news off another site for clicks. Probably because they get advertisement revenue from their own clickbait trash.

[Arthur]

Coming soon, Libre Ad-Block?

No need. There are plenty of alternatives inc. several that are open source.

 

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
  
• https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
  
• https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
  
• https://www.ghostery.com/