Adblock, Flattr Create Software That Allows Users To Donate To Websites

Adblock Plus has joined forces with micropayment website Flattr to launch a beta version of Flattr Plus, which allows users to distribute credit card or bank account payments among their preferred sites either once or periodically. The Flattr Plus algorithm divvies up the money to sites, and Adblock and Flattr get ten percent of the distributed cash. The announcement did not mollify opponents of ad blocking software. A representative of the Interactive Advertising bureau called the Adblock Plus/Flattr partnership "another attempt to paint ad blocking as anything other than a dangerous technology that erodes the foundations of the free Internet."