Even worse. Some of these companies (not adblock) are asking protection money from big advertisers to be whitelisted. Mafia style.
Maybe this is well-known, but my google-fu only turned up this news about Adblock Plus. Are you sure Adblock does it as well?
When I used adblock as the search criteria, I got a bunch of hits on it. But when I did adblock -plus, I got nothing primary that could pin this activity to AdBlock.
Can someone explain to me how that works?
Are you suggesting a free service can't make enough money to operate a business? Man, how am I getting away with not paying for that Wikipedia subscription.
Adblock operates on donations and if it were to eliminate advertising, its current product would become useless.
Because other people pay for you.