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On 08/07/14 21:11, Simon Avery wrote: > "AdBlock Plus sued by German marketing companies" > > http://www.neowin.net/news/adblock-plus-sued-by-german-marketing-companies > > Okay, was going to happen sooner or later, but I expected the Americans > to be first. What I didn't expect was the news that Adblock had been > taking money to auto-whitelist certain ad-generating domains. I'm a > little disappointed by that as this was one of my "go to" game-changer > plugins. > > "Awfully nice banner ad you've got there guv, be a shame if something > was to happen to it..." > > Not sure who I support here. Authors of a free-to-use plugin who have > been taking bribes, or advertising agencies angry their competitors are > giving those bribes. > > That's an easy one: https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads I still use adblock plus religiously - I just always disable the "non-intrusive" adverts as well. It's common knowledge that adblock plus has had this 'feature' for a while and also that people can pay them to be 'vetted' and allowed through the filter isn't it? There was a massive fuss about it when it came out a while ago. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq