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Re:Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remov... by criley2 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:37PM (#6504946)
>I am just waiting for a more powerful entity like Google or Facebook to take on Ad-block, that's when it'll get really interesting.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

Tl;dr: Google pays Adblock Plus to mark Google ads "acceptable". Google ads are whitelisted from adblocking.

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Re:Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remov... by RexRollman on Sunday October 06, 2013 @03:46PM (#6505190)
I don't use Adblock (I am a NoScript man) but I never knew that! Thanks for the info.
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