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http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-adblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/

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To be placed on AdBlock Plus’ whitelist, advertisements must be transparent about being ads, must be appropriate to the site they’re being served on, and must not distort or disrupt the page content, among other criteria. AdBlock Plus goes into more detail about the whitelisting process here.

But one important facet of the business plan is that if a company is big enough, AdBlock Plus' parent company, German start-up Eyeo, asks for a fee in addition to adhering to the "Acceptable Ads" criteria before it allows a company to be whitelisted.

That creates an interesting ecosystem between major companies whose bottom line depends on advertising and the increasingly popular AdBlock Plus. (According to PageFair and Adobe, AdBlock Plus has 144 million active users [PDF]).

On Sunday, the Financial Times confirmed paid deals between Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and ad-serving company Taboola with AdBlock Plus. Although all four companies have been publicly listed in the forums for years as having had ads whitelisted, the confirmation of a monetary exchange shows that these major companies see ad blocking as a hit to their bottom lines.

For smaller websites, whitelisting is usually free as long as certain criteria are met as outlined in AdBlock Plus’ “Acceptable Ads Initiative." In 2013, AdBlock Plus wrote that only 10 percent of its whitelisted ads had paid to be whitelisted. According to Williams, that number remains about the same today: less than 10 percent of the sites and entities whitelisted by AdBlock Plus have paid spots on the whitelist.

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Re: Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2015, 07:33:35 pm »
I stopped using AdBlock Plus a while ago. Switched to alternatives.

Re: Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2015, 08:27:52 pm »
ive never been able to use it without tweaking it. It seems to block a lot of our catch up tv out of the box.

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Re: Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2015, 03:51:45 am »
i use adblock plus... and its currently blocking 1049 ads on twitter..... regardless of the whitelist or opinions regarding its existence... im quite happy with the results.... 

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Re: Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2015, 12:43:37 am »
I stopped using AdBlock Plus a while ago. Switched to alternatives.

Will you suggest the alternatives, please? I'd like to know about them, and your recommendations.




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Re: Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2015, 12:06:26 am »
At the moment I'm using uBlock. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Uses much less CPU and RAM than ABP. In some usage scenarios it can reduce RAM use by 1GB compared to Adblock Plus.

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