Eyeo, the maker of the AdBlock Plus browser extension, is being roasted for accepting money to “whitelist” some ads, letting them pass through the software’s filter mechanism—but there’s an easy way ...

Adblock Plus and other ad blockers that whitelist ads from paying companies engage in deceptive and unfair practices, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.

In 2006, Adblock Plus 0.6 was released as a browser extension that promised to keep users’ Web experience uncluttered and advertising-free. As the Internet became overrun with auto-play videos, ...