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The App Store is a garbage dump anyway. There are few apps you can pay upfront, the rest are ad-infested or require you to repeatedly do in app purchases to kee
by visarga 4y ago
The App Store is a garbage dump anyway. There are few apps you can pay upfront, the rest are ad-infested or require you to repeatedly do in app purchases to keep using them, to the point that I can't find games for my kids.
- colinmhayes 4y agoYou can run DNS based ad blockers on iOS. It’s just a setting you change, mine is called adguard. Still get YouTube ads, but most others are blocked.
- wnkrshm 4y agoBut in theory, someone controlling a walled garden could do the same that youtube does with any kind of content. If the app doesn't work in a transparent manner anymore, you can just shoehorn unblockable ads into it.
- colinmhayes 4y agoSort of, it’d be tough though. YouTube ads aren’t blocked because they’re not using a third party ad vendor. They’re big enough that they run their own auctions. The vast majority of services aren’t capable of creating the auction themselves, so their ads can be blocked.