The discussion is indeed relevant to developers and developers can distribute apps outside of Play. How is that not relevant? Also, having worked on an actual

The discussion is indeed relevant to developers and developers can distribute apps outside of Play. How is that not relevant? Also, having worked on an actual anti-ad-blocking platform I can tell you that Safari's content blockers are shit. They are the easiest to detect and circumvent and the reason for why many publishers still don't is because (1) they don't know it's possible, or (2) they are afraid of pissing visitors off, especially given growing GDPR concerns. The most potent ad-blocker on the market is uBlock Origin. And Firefox on Android supports it, the only mobile browser that does. Soon to be the only desktop browser too, but that's another discussion.