Posts Tagged "Adblock Plus"

People using ad-blocking software who visited the The New York Times website in March were shown a message. This read: “The best things in life aren’t free”. It went on to explain that “advertising helps us fund our journalism” and gave the visitor two options to read the newspaper’s online content: disable their ad-blocking software or pay for a subscription

Publishers with more than 10m blocked ads have to pay 30% of the revenue from previously blocked ads to make it on to whitelist

The Adblock Plus revenue model has long been a contentious one. Adblock Plus charges some companies to appear on its “Acceptable Ads” list — a white list that allows some un-interruptive ads to be served to its users. Confirming a Financial Times article published earlier this year, large entities — which it qualifies as those […]