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Adblockers, as a whole, would have so much more legitimacy if the most popular one didn't accept money for whitelisting.

If they want to advance an agenda that whitelists ads they consider "not annoying", fine, people who disagree with that agenda can use a better adblocker that blocks all ads. But accepting money allows articles like this one to paint all adblockers with that same brush, making them all seem less legitimate.

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They're very specific about what ads they will whitelist and only require payment from (roughly the largest) 10% of publishers. https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-explained-moneti...

I think there's a general consensus that people aren't against advertising in principle, it's the tracking, the intrusiveness etc. that the game has turned into.

I feel it's perfectly fair for an organisation working towards this ideal to take money in somehow in order to pay for it.

That whitelist can be disabled by simple disabling one checkbox in settings.

Some spam has working unsubscribe links, but it's still spam.

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