Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted | Hacker NewsI was thinking about this further, and while it comes off as fairly irrelevant to start with, it's actually an extremely bad thing.In essence, this has set up two tiers of advertising: those we have paid for white list privileges, and those who haven't. This is heavily in Google's interests as they are the only advertiser powerful enough to get by with only text adverts - nobody else has a platfor
