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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:39PM
Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg) [ghacks.net]
ClarityRay defeats it
Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2 [businessinsider.com]
AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file [superuser.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @06:07AM
But does it protect against spam on soylent news? (i.e. you)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:05PM
See subject: You obviously can't validly technically prove my points wrong on hosts superiority to "AlmostAllAdsBlocked" & that's all anyone needs to see here along w/ the fact you tried down modding my post (only to have others upmod it again) in effete "retaliation"... there's NO DEFENSE for inferior tools YOU might use vs. hosts. None (& you KNOW it).
APK
P.S.=> I invite YOU to do better (but of course "your kind", off-topic trolls who are obviously advertisers or those profiting by them in webmasters, inferior competitors, or malware makers/botnet herders etc. - et al, just CAN'T)... apk