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posted by martyb on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the NOW-we-know-what-the-'Plus'-is dept.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12890050/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads

A story at The Verge reveals the newest plan for the company behind Adblock Plus, they are entering the ad network business. In exchange for 20% of your revenue, you can get pre-approved ads that will show to users with acceptable ads enabled. While pitched as an easier alternative to the old process of getting ads approved, the ultimate goal is the same. Now, they will get a percentage of all acceptable ads though the program. The article points out that this is one big step closer to racketeering, as they are directly taking a 6% cut. Or, as the old gangsters would say, "would you rather pay me to keep 80% of something or keep 100% of nothing?"


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:25AM (#404695)

    What about an alternative business model for an ad blocker: The users pay for the service of ad-blocking, and the page owners get a cut for each ad blocked by the ad blocker.

    OK, I admit, it has one major flaw: Nobody will want to pay for the service.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ComaVN on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:33AM

    by ComaVN (3722) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:33AM (#404701)

    This merely reverses the direction of the racketeering

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @11:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @11:34AM (#404742)

    If an ad gets through Ublock Origin, Scriptblock, email, snailmail, or door knocking... I simply refuse to do business with them forever.