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Last time I checked, adBlock is a welcomed thing and one of the most popular among Firefox and Chrome extensions. Now apple did it, and everybody is crying and

Last time I checked, adBlock is a welcomed thing and one of the most popular among Firefox and Chrome extensions. Now apple did it, and everybody is crying and said this would hurt publishers. We actually are only seeing this "Reader" feature in the desktop Safari, not MobileSafari (at least for now). There is also no App Store for desktop. So why this is nudging web publisher to App Store since there is no "Reader" on iPad/iPhone and no App Store on your desktop? I don't see this too different from the "Popup Blocker" feature. Remember the days when popup window was the standard way to display ads. Now pretty much every browser comes with popup blocker. It's just time to change how you build and place your advertisement. Don't be annoying, otherwise, there will be people rushing to get rid of the things people hate to please the users. There is no law against it.

masklinn 16y ago
> Now apple did it, and everybody is crying and said this would hurt publishers. Not even that, Reader is not an ad blocker it's a reformatter, it's a built-in Readability and nothing more. And you have to see the page before you can even trigger readability, so really it's not like it's disappearing your ads. > I don't see this too different from the "Popup Blocker" feature. Remember the days when popup window was the standard way to display ads. Now pretty much every browser comes with popup blocker. In fact, Reader is much less anti-ads than popup blocking ever was.