Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads

Re:Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publisher... by djur on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:01PM (#11212570)

I'm curious if any evidence has ever been offered that the "Acceptable Ads" program is corrupt. It seems to me that literally the moment it was announced people characterized it as an offer to be bribed, but _as described_ I don't see anything wrong with the program.

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Re:Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publisher... by lost_name on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:14PM (#11212652)

Granted, it's unlikely that they would say anything if they were extorting people as you describe... but from just the other day: https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-explained-moneti...

Discussion (somewhat lacking): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182174

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Re:Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publisher... by futunet on Thursday March 03, 2016 @12:59PM (#11218574)

What would constitute evidence of corruption?

* Allowing the most invasive of all the ad trackers to be members of Acceptable ads? (Criteo: Yes, they're a member)

* Allowing the most ubiquitous ad trackers to be members of Acceptable Ads? (Google: Yes, they're a member)

* Allowing the advertisements of companies owned by their investors to be members of Acceptable Ads? (Sedo: Owned by Tim Schumacher -- Yes they're a member)

* Allowing cheesy "native ads" site-spam to be part of Acceptable Ads? (Taboola. Yes, they're a member.)

* Gouging publishers for an absolutely absurd pound of flesh? (The rate is 30% of ad revenue for blocked ads. Insane!)

I could go on.

There's a lot wrong with the program.

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Re:Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publisher... by hartator on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:09PM (#11212630)

Sure, they didn't got any money from that. (!)

Ref: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/google-and-others-reportedl...

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