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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by mhaymo on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:01PM (#8103311)
That's not my understanding of how it works. You cannot pay to get obtrusive or tracking ads on the whitelist. If you are a large company (how exactly that's defined isn't clear), you need to pay to get your unobtrusive ads whitelisted.

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

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by throwaway2048 on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:19PM (#8103434)
Google ads are tracking ads, and the ability to track is not listed as an unacceptable criterion.
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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by tripzilch on Thursday July 31, 2014 @05:45AM (#8113227)
> You cannot pay to get obtrusive or tracking ads on the whitelist.

> If you are a large company (how exactly that's defined isn't clear), you need to pay to get your unobtrusive ads whitelisted.

Yeah that's a pretty clear conflict of interest, isn't it?

And it's violated right there with Google because the type of tracking ads that Google Ads are shouldn't have been allowed. For a non-paying party. As long as they stay true to their self-imposed rules for "acceptable ads".

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