The maker of AdBlock Plus is also an ally of online advertising

The article is hosted on a news site which immediately requests notification permissions and auto-plays an ad video at full volume. They talk about the "acceptable ads" program.

I find that quite funny. Their ads on that very site sure are not acceptable :)

Sorry, bad link. Didn't realise because I block ads :)

It's okay to show me ads, it's not okay to use those videos/images to track everything I do for your own profit without my explicit consent.

And that's why I use uBlock Origin on Firefox. By default it blocks most ads, which saves me time in trying to figure out which ones are tracking me and which are just trying to fund the content.

I wish there was a verifiable way to know if an ad is tracking you and selectively allow those that don't. I have no problem with ads, I do have a problem with tracking.

I actually use both ABP and UBlock at the same time. That way not much gets through the gates.

>You can set Adblock Plus to block all ads.

All you need to know really. It sucks that it's on by default though.