[jroes]

Wait a second. Didn't ABP have a big donation page it would take you to after installing? I remember donating. This is unbelievable.

[bhouston]

There are few people that wouldn't be corrupted by $30M. I'm sure the total donations, even for a crazy popular plugin, were fairly minuscule.

I do think that the developers were corrupted by offers from these web properties, I suspect they didn't initiate these discussions.

[cowchase]

> Whitelisting is free for all small and medium-sized websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

$30M surely is a lot of money for managing the "acceptable ads" list...