Adblock Extension has been sold to an unknown buyer, its creator Michael Gundlach made the shocking revelation. AdBlock Extension will now let some advertisements through on by selected websites or by selected companies by default, if those companies pay for showing their ads. Some users fear the extension will no more work as in the past, others speculate that it could be used as an attack vector in order to transfer on the 40 million devices a sort of spyware others simply believe that it is a marketing action of an IT giant.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/40689/digital-id/adblock-extension-sold.html