An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
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An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
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Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#2Aww. I was hoping he also took care of the App Store banner using the content blocker. Would be great if those banners could be turned off.
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#39 seconds of page load for ads is unacceptable. Mobile browsing has become a pita because of all those poor ads network, and i think once again (after the flash controversy) apple is going to save the web by making radical decisions like this one.
It may very well be that mobile web content browsing becomes even more pleasant than using native apps thanks to that, since they too seem to fall for the trend of putting the maximum number of ads possible. Only with native you'll never be able to block anything easily.
Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#4Aww. I was hoping he also took care of the App Store banner using the content blocker. Would be great if those banners could be turned off.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the App Store banner is gone after the content blocker is run
Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#5Eleven seconds to load a single page is hilariously bad. Javascript puts far too much blind trust in developers.
Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#6Aww. I was hoping he also took care of the App Store banner using the content blocker. Would be great if those banners could be turned off.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the App Store banner is gone after the content blocker is run
yes, but if you read the article, the author states that was not blocked by the content blocker, he was just unable to get it to reappear.
Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#79 seconds of page load for ads is unacceptable. Mobile browsing has become a pita because of all those poor ads network, and i think once again (after the flash controversy) apple is going to save the web by making radical decisions like this one. It may very well be that mobile web content browsing becomes even more pleasant than using native apps thanks to that, since they too seem to fall for the trend of putting…
If Apple wanted to, they could let the content blockers work for native apps as well. All in-app ads that I have seen are loaded over the same HTTP mechanisms. I guess they have chosen not to do so.
Re: An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
#89 seconds of page load for ads is unacceptable. Mobile browsing has become a pita because of all those poor ads network, and i think once again (after the flash controversy) apple is going to save the web by making radical decisions like this one. It may very well be that mobile web content browsing becomes even more pleasant than using native apps thanks to that, since they too seem to fall for the trend of putting…
Apple isn't doing this to save the web, they are doing this so developers will be forced to create a native app to show ads and make some money.
Easiest way to show ads in a native app on iOS... oh wouldn't that be iAd service in which Apple gets a cut of the profit?
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#99 seconds of page load for ads is unacceptable. Mobile browsing has become a pita because of all those poor ads network, and i think once again (after the flash controversy) apple is going to save the web by making radical decisions like this one. It may very well be that mobile web content browsing becomes even more pleasant than using native apps thanks to that, since they too seem to fall for the trend of putting…
If Apple wanted to, they could let the content blockers work for native apps as well. All in-app ads that I have seen are loaded over the same HTTP mechanisms. I guess they have chosen not to do so.
I'd be amazed if the SDK's UIWebView (whatever it's called these days) didn't have access to this in some future release.
I doubt they'd apply it to generic HTTP calls on apps though - it would ruin the ad-supported app ecosystem and Apple aren't that daft.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the App Store banner is gone after the content blocker is run
yes, but if you read the article, the author states that was not blocked by the content blocker, he was just unable to get it to reappear.
If you look at his script the blocking system lets you hide html elements with css, too hide the app store banner all you have to do is inspect element in chrome, find the element id/class and set it to display none.