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?"
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:33PM
For a different anecdotal view on the fork, the original dev passed uBlock to someone who then advertised uBlock as his own creation, edited Wikipedia to say so, spammed Reddit, etc. and focused almost entirely on monetizing the project with ridiculously high donation tiers rather than further developing it. The original owner was unable to reclaim the uBlock "trademark", so was forced to use the new name uBlock Origin.
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