US Newspapers File Complaint Against Ad Blockers

Washington Post: The Newspaper Association of America filed a federal complaint against the ad-blocking industry on Thursday, alleging that software companies which enable users to block ads are misleading the public. The complaint asks the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate ad blockers that offer “paid whitelisting” – a service which charges advertisers to bypass ad-blocking software – along with services that substitute ad blockers’ own advertising for blocked ads or get around publishers’ subscription pages.