Is Adblock Plus accepting whitelist bribes from Google, Microsoft and Amazon?

Posted by jimlynch on Feb 2, 2015 4:51 PM EDT
Technology and Other Musings; By Jim Lynch
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Adblock Plus is one of the most popular browser add-ons of all time. According to its parent company Eyeo, it has been downloaded more than 300 million times. That’s an impressive achievement for any browser extension, but it also shows how many users are tired of intrusive ads on the Internet.

But the Register reports that Google, Microsoft and Amazon have paid Eyeo a significant sum of money to be automatically whitelisted in Adblock Plus...

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