User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Making Ads Better: The Basics/@comment-3474542-20170119194010/@comment-26402117-20170120200843

I feel that Acceptable Ads is a cunning front for a rather business-savvy monetization of existing ads. It claims to be about cleaning up ads, but preys on the modern all-you-can-eat consumerism people have by ripping ads from websites and then marking to their own standard. All the adblocker extensions that are part of the program are (or were, haven't rechecked) whitelist-only, so the consumer is blind to all ads. They also have developers and users that haven't contributed to the process of cleaning up but chew up revenue and bandwidth. Sure, ads on the Internet could be better. But whitelist-only ad extensions take both the responsibility of supporting ads and being acquainted with the ad experience away from the user - in every situation.

This says it all. The website avoids blaming itself for the monetary damage its extensions may cause. It also takes some money for letting ads through...and as one may guess, that really opens the door.