Microsoft and Google paid Ad Block Plus for whitelisting ?

[nancy reagan]

edit: first link I provided http://www.ft.com/home/europe I found on a dutch tweakers blog. According to Ted does not link to the article (anumoe)

Here's the next:
http://www.myce.com/news/google-and-mic ... nts-74707/

[Ted Dog]

Or governments forced them since it disrupted the intel gathering or a bit of both.

[Ted Dog]

there is nothing about whitelists at the link...

[nancy reagan]

there is nothing about whitelists at the link...

Edited first post.

Dunno how to make a clickable link for when I add the link disappaers.

[Ted Dog]

lol guess your posts and mine suffer the same fate, good to know I am not alone. I found more txt before and after links pass the build in spam blocker.

[bark_bark_bark]

Well I wouldn't doubt it. Adblock Edge and Adblock Lattitude have no whitelist option, so you can still block Micro$haft and Screwgle ads.

[Ted Dog]

or read the docs for plus. Hopefully they can be turned back to block by turning off the allow whitelist checkbox.

[cthisbear]

nancy reagan >>> here you go.

http://www.myce.com/news/google-and-mic ... nts-74707/

" Microsoft and Google have paid the German developer of the popular Chrome and Firefox extension AdBlock Plus to whitelist their advertisements, according to the Financial Times.

Companies can pay to show their advertisements to users running the AdBlock Plus extension. "

Chris.

[Terryphi]

or read the docs for plus. Hopefully they can be turned back to block by turning off the allow whitelist checkbox.

Yes, they can.

[linuxcbon]

That's why I only use /etc/hosts and add entries manually by checking browser's about:cache Long and boring at first, but very easy to add new entries after that.
I NEVER trusted programs such as adblock and I was right from the start.

[neerajkolte]

You could also right click an advert on webpage you are viewing and select "Inspect Element", then copy it's address to your hosts file.

Thanks.

- Neeraj.

[rokytnji]

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Firefox

You can install by downloading the latest uBlock.firefox.xpi file, and by dragging the downloaded xpi file to your add-on page.Chromium

You can install the latest version manually, from the Chrome Web Store, or from the Opera store.

Feel free to read about the extension's required permissions.

To install in Firefox , click on the .xpi file link near the bottom of this page
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

then just allow Firefox to install it. I would uninstall any adblocker addon you have in firefox 1st though.

Note for all browsers

To benefit from µBlock's higher efficiency, it's advised that you don't use other inefficient blockers at the same time (such as AdBlock or Adblock Plus). µBlock will do as well or better than most popular ad blockers.

I can't speak for seamonkey though seamonkey takes xpi files also so
someone with Seamonkey must try it.

[8Geee]

Well I wouldn't doubt it. Adblock Edge and Adblock Lattitude have no whitelist option, so you can still block Micro$haft and Screwgle ads.

Have to agree here, Edge or Latitude are worthy choices... no whitelist. I'm running FF browser, and you can also remove the Search-engine Helper Links in about config. IIRC there's at least 4 of them

[Makoto]

I thought it was the "Allow non-intrusive advertising" checkbox/option under Adblock Plus' Filter Preferences?

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

Not that I'm advocating it or anything; just thought that that was the option, not the one to completely disable whitelists (especially since I'm assuming it's most likely separate from the whitelists, anyway)

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