Over 300 businesses now whitelisted on AdBlock Plus, 10% pay to play
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 04 February 2015
AdBlock Plus Communications Manager Ben Williams wrote that currently, the browser extension has granted a pass to "over 300 sites/entities" out of "over 1,500 applicants" to the company's whitelist.
On Sunday, the Financial Times confirmed paid deals between Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and ad-serving company Taboola with AdBlock Plus.
People use ABP because they are sick of all the ads popping up everywhere. Making deals with advertisers to bypass filters won't make those people happy. For now, you can fix this bug by disabling "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"; if that option should vanish one day, you need to switch to alternatives, like µBlock.