Eyeo, the maker of the AdBlock Plus browser extension, is being roasted for accepting money to “whitelist” some ads, letting them pass through the software’s filter mechanism—but there’s an easy way ...

Adblock Plus and other ad blockers that whitelist ads from paying companies engage in deceptive and unfair practices, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.

Are Eyeo, developers of the Adblock Plus plugin, campaigning for better adverts, or just holding the web's biggest businesses hostage?

Since 2011, AdBlock Plus, a popular browser plugin that blocks online ads, has kept a “whitelist” of websites that are allowed to serve ads despite the presence of the AdBlock Plus plugin. In an ...

In 2006, Adblock Plus 0.6 was released as a browser extension that promised to keep users’ Web experience uncluttered and advertising-free. As the Internet became overrun with auto-play videos, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Criteo, a public ad tech company that works with retailers to "re-target" online ads at users likely ...

There was a bit of a user uproar when it came to light that browser advertising blocking service Adblock Plus was actually providing some advertisers, like Google, the opportunity to show some ads ...

A new, “less extreme” version of AdBlock Plus will let some internet advertisements — those approved by the company itself — through its filters. That’s right: AdBlock, which bills itself as the ...

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