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I see adblockers as another casualty of the end of the ZIRP era. Big Tech was benevolent when the money was free, but now that they have to tighten the waistban
by teqsun 2y ago
I see adblockers as another casualty of the end of the ZIRP era. Big Tech was benevolent when the money was free, but now that they have to tighten the waistband all the nice open-sourced add-ons (like 3rd party readers, ad-blockers, etc.) are all getting killed off (or at least they're trying to)
- crooked-v 2y agoOn the other hand, Apple is adding a "this is totally not an adblocker, I promise" it's-obviously-an-adblocker to the next version of Safari as a builtin feature. It's pretty barebones, as Apple copycat features tend to be, but I think it's a decent indicator of their attitude on the subject.
- frizlab 2y agoThey intended it as an adblocker initially and dialed back the tone because of pressure from ad companies and co.
- layer8 2y agoMy understanding is that it’s a DOM element hider. While it is possible to hide some ads with it, it probably won’t disable the tracking.
- a1o 2y agoThere are adblockers for Safari too in the Appstore