Pot, meet kettle: Adblock Plus calls out Facebook for being ‘anti-user’

Aug10

by Sindy Cator on August 10, 2016 at 11:39 pm

Adblock Plus isn’t taking the news of Facebook’s decision to circumvent ad-blockers all that well. Today, the popular browser extension called the move ‘anti-user’ and claims it ‘takes a dark path against user choice.’ Wait, is this the same company that got caught taking payments (of $250,000 to $1 million) to put advertisers on a white list? In case you don’t live online I’ll go ahead and answer: yes, it was. In fact, the Interactive Advertising Bureau chief, Randall Rothenberg once called Adblock Plus: “an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes.” Harsh as it may sound, the criticism is warranted.…