Tag: Adblock

24 OCT

AdBlock Plus retools its service to pay sites you visit most

Last year, we covered Flattr, AdBlock Plus’s endeavor to help you pay the sites you visit most often. Now, the company is relaunching the tool and billing it as what the team had imagined when they first conceived of the project. Flattr 2.0 is a browser extension that works with an algorithm and a subscription […]

10 OCT

37,000 Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension

If you use Adblock Plus with Chrome and downloaded the extension pretty recently, you may want to check what you’ve installed. Apparently, a fake Adblock Plus extension made it through Google’s verification process and lived in the official Chrome Web Store alongside the real one. Google has taken down the phony listing after SwiftOnSecurity tweeted […]

05 APR

Adblock Plus owner Eyeo acquires micropayments service Flattr

Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquiredFlattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cofounded in 2010 by Peter Sunde, the same guy who helped build the Pirate Bay, Flattr is an online system that allows users and fans […]