AdBlock Plus Would Allow Ads By Google, Microsoft And Amazon

Adblock Plus, by far the most popular browser extension that exists, would ads from Google, Microsoft and Amazon no longer hold back. According to a report in the Financial Times the company would pay the developer of the extension to allow their ads.

Adblock Plus claims to be downloaded over 300 million times. Some 20 million Firefox users and more than 10 million users use Chrome extension. Adblock Plus is also available for other browsers. According to research of Page Fair would be the impact of these and other ad blockers are increasingly felt by websites. Users can easily block ads in this way, allowing websites to lose revenue.

The Financial Times says that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and advertising company Taboola the developer of Adblock Plus paid to whitelist their ads. For example, ads are as in Microsoft's Bing search engine is shown. For this, the developer would be 30% of the ad revenue have asked where the companies agreed upon. Developer EYEO also states that will be transmitted only acceptable advertisements. Google and Amazon, however, want to give response to the Financial Times, while Microsoft has announced that it always gives users a choice when it comes to advertising.

Popular Virus Shield App apparent scam

Security conscious Android users were disappointed this week when it emerged that their Virus Shield anti-virus app was nothing more than a simple image on the screen of their mobile phone or device.
According maker Deviant Solutions Virus Shield prevents malicious apps end up on the mobile device of the user. In addition, the apps, settings, files, and media in real time would scan the app and would protect the private information of the owner. All this, with minimal impact on battery and without showing ads.

Google Play Store
The app received a whopping 4.7 stars in the official Google Play Store, cost $ 3.99 and was within a week of the best-selling paid app in the Store.

Scam
Unfortunately, the promise proved too good to be true. When the Android Police glanced at the source code, it was found that the only functionality of the app consisted of a picture of a shield with a cross and a shield with a check mark where the user could switch by tapping on the screen. between This would produce the so-called security should be off. Or in Deviant Solutions, however, proved "failed" to have an effective anti-virus application after the on-off button to hang up.
Virus Shield has been removed from the Google Play Store.