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Re:Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers by TheDong on Sunday June 14, 2015 @05:14AM (#9714274)
They can do the same justification AdblockPlus does: Don't disable unintrusive ads, only intrusive ones, and thus allow google text ads.

And yes, the adblock devs were given money by google shortly before making that choice.

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Re:Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers by hollerith on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:39AM (#9715056)
>the adblock devs were given money by google shortly before making that choice.

(No offense, but you're an anonymous writer on the internet.) Do you know of a URL or something I can use to verify that statement?

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Re:Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers by sakawa on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:57AM (#9715102)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7963577/google-ads-get-thro... http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-go...

I was using Adblock Plus, but this made me think a lot about this. Now, I'm using Privoxy + NoScript with custom filters.

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