This is old news, except for specifics about which firms are paying. And in any case, Adblock Plus alerts at installation about the option of deselecting "Allow some non-intrusive advertising".

Url changed from https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/adblock-sold-reportedly-allowin..., which points to this.

which in turn points to this: "That’s per a Wall Street Journal story...." http://www.wsj.com/articles/propelled-by-apple-ad-blocking-c...

Good catch. We'll change to that from http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/24/adblock_plus_....

It turns out to be a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10274239.