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While I run an ad-blocker and agree that a lot of ads are intrusive and occasionally pose a security risk. The concept of "pay us to get your ads whitelisted" does smell of racketeering. I would feel more comfortable if the vetting was done by an independent third party, not the manufacturer of blocker. (The ads could be cryptographically signed and ethical blockers permit only those that were signed by parties the user trusted.)