Adblock extension begins whitelisting 'acceptable ads'<article>
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<p>The maker of a competing ad-blocking browser extension has joined up with the new program created by Eyeo, owner of Adblock Plus, under which an independent board will decide which ads are acceptable to be placed on a whitelist.</p><p>The AdBlock browser extension for Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari—similarly named but independent of Eyeo’s product—claims 40 million users. Its developer Michael Gundlach said Thursday that he had sold his company, as well.</p><p>The move came about, he said, because German developer
Eyeo had decided to distance itself from management of the acceptable ads program that allowed it to make money from its own ad-blocking browser extensions.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2988838/software-web/adblock-for-chrome-signs-on-to-eyeos-acceptable-ads-whitelist.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Adblock extension begins whitelisting 'acceptable ads'
