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RIP: Adblock Plus

Posted on February 13, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Violet Blue writes:

I got a little too excited when the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) chief called Adblock Plus (ABP) “an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes.” I immediately wanted to know when the next coven meeting was and how many stars to sew onto my witch cape.

The chief’s accusations of heresy came after ABP was disinvited from the bureau’s Leadership Summit. IAB’s chief further twisted the ceremonial dagger by saying they weren’t invited “in the first place.”

After that splendid outburst of public bitchiness, finding and joining the ad-blocking coven was my destiny. But little did I know that any ad-free witchery Adblock Plus might’ve been storing up for future spell-casting was getting less ad-free by the minute.

Read more on engadget.

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