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They can do the same justification AdblockPlus does: Don't disable unintrusive ads, only intrusive ones, and thus allow google text ads.

And yes, the adblock devs were given money by google shortly before making that choice.

the adblock devs were given money by google shortly before making that choice.

(No offense, but you're an anonymous writer on the internet.) Do you know of a URL or something I can use to verify that statement?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7963577/google-ads-get-thro... http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-go...

I was using Adblock Plus, but this made me think a lot about this. Now, I'm using Privoxy + NoScript with custom filters.

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