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on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:12AM
from the NOW-we-know-what-the-'Plus'-is dept.
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) by jdavidb on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:00PM
According to this [wikipedia.org] Wiki article comparing uBlock and uBlock Origin, uBlock Origin is still being updated, while uBlock hasn't updated in over a year.
Kind of like AdBlock and AdBlockPlus. It must be some sort of rite of passage for ad blocking software.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:47PM
Adblock has been updated quite a bit behind the scenes. If you look at kzar's fabulous unofficial mirror on github, https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/blob/master/src/CHANGELOG.txt [github.com] a cursory glance shows that they mostly just tweak the UI anymore because their solution to falling behind the arms race was to use the ABP core. That's right folks, AdBlock is a little more than a fancy skin for ABP.