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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Zarel on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:04AM (#14154324)
As noted in the article, Google pays Adblock Plus an undisclosed amount of money to be considered non-intrusive. Adblock Plus is clearly not a neutral evaluator here.
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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Eerie on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:29AM (#14154412)
Adblock Plus is pretty open about it. You can disable the option easily. And Google ads are, in fact, relatively non intrusive. I don't see the problem.
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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Zarel on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:38AM (#14154692)
I'm not opposed to an exception for acceptable ads; I think it's a good idea. My only problem is that it seems to be a serious conflict of interest to accept money from ad providers for this.
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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by Eerie on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:58AM (#14155854)
As long as the accepted ads are really non-intrusive, there's no conflict. There would be a conflict if you could pay Adblock Plus to accept browser-hijacking popups.
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Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by coldpie on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:44AM (#14156117)
Reviewing ads takes time. Time is money. It's perfectly reasonable to charge for the review process.
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