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I really don't get your point, with a native app the developer has full control of what is being shown, if anything ad ad-blocker would steer users more towards
by Kurtz79 11y ago
I really don't get your point, with a native app the developer has full control of what is being shown, if anything ad ad-blocker would steer users more towards a clean web browers than an ad infested native app.
As a real world example, the (otherwise excellent) Twitch app on iOs serves unskippable minute long video ads with an annoying frequency, so much that I often prefer using the service through an ad-blocking web browser (which btw DO exist on the App Store, and have been for a while already).
- JadeNB 11y agoI think neor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776826)'s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9776826)'s point is the intended impact on developers, not on users. I believe that the contention is that Apple hopes to coerce developers—or, rather, content providers—into taking down public-facing web portals that are out of Apple's control, where their ad revenue will plummet, and creating instead an app that is to some extent under Apple's control, because that will become the only effective way to get ad revenue. Your choice as a user will then go away; there are already some, though fortunately not yet many, sites that must be accessed through apps (for example, my bank accepts deposits only through their app). (I'm not endorsing this point of view myself, although it sounds more than a bit plausible to me; it's just, I think, what was being said.)