The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment service Flattr

Eyeo, the mum or dad organization behind AdBlock As well as, introduced this early morning that it has obtained Flattr.

The two providers have been already performing alongside one another on a venture in the beginning called Flattr As well as, the place consumers can allocate a month-to-month payment to on the internet publishers. The revenue is then dispersed centered on users’ engagement with distinctive web sites and article content.

This sounded quite related to what Flattr was already undertaking, apart from that consumers didn’t have to strike a button to “Flattr” a internet site. In simple fact, this is now staying pitched as an overhauled, “zero-click” edition of the principal Flattr item, and you can signal up for early accessibility here.

“Over the earlier a number of months, it became incredibly apparent that we necessary to go beyond a partnership and really deliver Flattr into the eyeo spouse and children,” said eyeo founder Till Faida (pictured over) in the acquisition launch. “This lets us to go that extra mile and finalize our eyesight of enabling hundreds of hundreds of thousands of consumers to pick out how they want to pay out for the articles they eat. This is a activity-changer.”

Eyeo said that the Flattr workforce will proceed to perform out of Malmö, Sweden (eyeo is headquartered in Germany) — co-founder Linus Olsson will stay in demand of functions and implementation, though co-founder Peter Sunde results in being an advisor.

The money conditions of the offer have been not disclosed. As section of the partnership, eyeo experienced earlier invested in Flattr, which also lifted funding from Passion Cash and Federico Pirzio-Biroli.