Google, Amazon, MS have paid AdBlock Plus to allow their ads to pass through

This seems to be growing:

Adblock Edge - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

The strangest thing is that I've seen ABP advertising for job openings here on HN.

If true, any suggestions on alternatives that work just as well as this (used) to?

Personally, I have found NoScript for be sufficent for my needs. I don't mind advertising, but what I do mind is ads that pop-up, animate, or move. NoScript seems to take care of most of these.

Afaict, there is a single checkbox to click ('Allow some non-intrusive advertising') to not see white listed ads. I do not see ads from Google, MS, etc. when it is unselected.

I have the box checked and I recently started seeing Youtube ads.

I've been using a combination of Ghostery and EFF Privacy Badger to some decent success.

i've recently found µBlock to be a great alternative https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock