Get with the times: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...

I can heartily recommend µBlock as well, it's low on resource usage (much lower than abp) and blocks nearly everything. I do tend to combine it with ghostery/disconnect to be extra sure (not that ghostery is developed by an ads firm, though they say their opt-out options is legit).

Don't use abp. You should read this trough Google Translate maybe: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-...

Is there any evidence that they're doing anything sleazy? This seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory, not actual news.

No it's really like that. Advertisers habe the possibility to get white listed. But they have to pay for it.

And this feature can be disabled in the extension:

Tools->AddOns->AdblocPlus Options->Filter Preferences->Allow some non-intrusive advertising

You can untick it, and right next to it are two links. One is to a link describing the non-intrusive ads and the other is to the actual white-list:

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

I didn't realize this was on for me. But to tell you the truth, I have never seen any of these advertisements. So either they were so unnoticeable/rare or they really were completely non-intrusive.

I personally have no problem with this. As long as they keep the ads non-intrusive as it appears they have up until now, I will continue to allow it as it has made my web browsing completely annoyance-free from ads.

Check µMatrix, too. Same guy who made µBlock, I believe.

Affection and/or love.

You're correct -- I'm on iOS/iPhone 5 and I don't have the option yet.

Good luck keeping any clones from popping up in the future, especially in a decentralized repository.

Wow that article is old. Anyway... here is a video of the attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwDutZgQrQ

To give context, this likely appeared today because it was mentioned yesterday in an essay by Kathy Sierra on specific types of real life damage that trolls do to other people. Other examples were doxxing and swatting.

"Your search - site:http://www.google.com//search - did not match any documents."

The mailing list was nice while it lasted. After a day or two, I started receiving "CLICK TO VIEW TODAY'S STYLE" e-mail links to force me to visit the site to see the style. E-mailing me links to your site everyday is basically spam. With no content coming from the mailing list, I promptly unsubscribed.

Do you have a screenshot of this exploit in action before it was patched?

Looks like the issue is marked public now in the chromium bug tracker and it has been fixed for a while now in release, so I assume it is ok to link that. The ruse is not perfect due to bolding and coloring, but good enough to fool most people not expecting it, I think, if you look at the bottom part of the second attached screenshot it gives you a good idea of what it looked like:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337746

An iOS version already exists.