Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus to Ignore Ads

Secret deals come to light

You’re not supposed to know it, but Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Taboola have been paying the developers of Adblock Plus to stop blocking ads on their respective websites, according to a paywalled article in the Financial Times. The deals are confidential in nature, though FT says it was able to confirm that they do in fact exist. If true, it raises some questions about the transparency of one of …read more

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