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How does Pie Adblock make money?

It's free so I'm suspecting they're doing more affiliate marketing stealing or something similar to Honey.



From the webstore extension overview:

> Get Paid to See Ads — Opt-in to see a limited number of partner ads and earn rewards.


After what happened with Honey, I guess this probably means: they replace ads on pages with their own, pocket most of the money, and extort the sites who would have earned money with the ads into partnering with them.




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