Maker of "Adblock Plus" Extension for Firefox Gets Paid By Google

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In case someone didn't hear the news yet...

The developer of the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox is on Google's and other corporates payroll to include their (Google's) as well as other ads in Adblock's whitelist, basically forcing certain ads to show where he gets paid for, unless explicitly "opted-out" in a setting of the extension.

I was wondering for several weeks already why I had ads in Google again despite me using the Adblock extension. The last weeks it came out that the coder gets paid by Google.

For all Adblock plus users: Please uninstall Adblock Plus. This is a matter or principle. There is a better alternative called Adblock Edge (a fork of Adblock Plus) which does NOT show "paid ads". In addition to that, Adblock Edge also makes Firefox start up quicker due to less bloat.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir.../adblock-edge/

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  • Profile picture of the author bgray
    ...as hundreds scurry to build the next best ad blocker extension.
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    Hebrews 12:11

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