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Apparently Marco Arment made an ad-blocking app for iOS called Peace, then after 2 days decided that he didn't want to be in the ad blocking business for ethica
by tempestn 11y ago
Apparently Marco Arment made an ad-blocking app for iOS called Peace, then after 2 days decided that he didn't want to be in the ad blocking business for ethical reasons and so pulled the app. He explains his reasoning here:
http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good
In this update, Apple has made the (apparently unprecedented) decision to proactively refund all purchases of the app, rather than requiring users to request refunds individually.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThere really needs to be some way to pin these "necessary context for understanding the post" comments to the top of the thread. (Other than just upvoting, which as of right now hasn't yet achieved that.)
- lobster_johnson 11y agoAfaik, upvoting will only work for a while -- I believe the sorting algorithm uses time as a factor, to allow newer comments to bubble up above higher-rated ones.
- rajacombinator 11y agoAdditional context needed: is there something new in iOS 9 that makes ad blocking possible?
- mehrdada 11y agoYes, iOS 9 introduces a new content blocking API making ad blockers in Safari possible: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_9.html https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
- itsmillertime4u 11y agoThe device has to be a 64-bit CPU though. So if you load iOS 9 on an older iPad or iPhone, then you will not get this feature.
- anon4 11y agoEven better - a small "context" link you can hover and get the context right there on the front page.