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So far the ad blocking experience on iOS has been a little rocky. 1) Several of them that I have tested break basic functionality - videos not playing etc. 2)
by downandout 11y ago
So far the ad blocking experience on iOS has been a little rocky.
1) Several of them that I have tested break basic functionality - videos not playing etc.
2) Adblock Plus, the leader in this space, decided to get greedy and not launch a blocker, but rather an entire browser, which I suspect most people will not embrace. I certainly won't, but I'd love ABP on my iOS Safari.
3) Peace, the most popular of the ad blockers, was removed after the author had an attack of conscience [1].
4) The ABP folks have decided to offer to pay those rolling out iOS adblockers for using their "acceptable ads" list. Sort of like a reverse adsense - basically extortion revenue sharing [2] .
[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/09/popular-ad-blocker-pulled-ios-app-store/ http://www.wired.com/2015/09/popular-ad-blocker-pulled-ios-a...
[2] http://bgr.com/2015/09/17/ios-9-ad-blocking-scandal-adblock-plus/ http://bgr.com/2015/09/17/ios-9-ad-blocking-scandal-adblock-...