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Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by robmcm »

forgetsusername wrote: post #17
vilmosi wrote: post #5

The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally find distasteful. >>> User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do something about it. The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps. Apple ge…

> I'll bet Apple won't consider "Install from Apple Store" type messages as ads. " Which for me, is the worst kind. When you accidentally click an ad (sometimes unbeknownst to you) and suddenly the browser is closing and iTunes is opening, trying to get you to install Game of War... That said, if ad-blocking works on iOS, I think much of what he writes comes true. It will be interesting.

Please remember that Apple has only said they will support plugins for Safari, no direct mention of ad blocking.

If there is ad blocking it will be provided by a third party.

If it is then it will be up to the third party if they want to block this kind of advert. By their nature however "install banners" are typically part of the content (if it's for the site's own application) so a typical ad blocker wouldn't catch them. If however it's a third party advert showing an app install dialogue/overlay it will likely be blocked, by the fact it will likely come from an ad providing domain.

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by profinger »

forgetsusername wrote: post #34
someuser1 wrote: post #20

Honestly, the experience on some of these mobile websites is so horrible that I've actually started boycotting them when they're just too bad to endure. It's funny, as the screens get larger, the content space stays the same or shrinks. I think, "ooh more content on one page!" and they think "ooh more ads to cram in!" It's just the worst. Ads with tiny close buttons, ads that mimic the content on the page in order to…

> Ads with tiny close buttons I recently encountered an ad with a tiny close button that jittered , making it impossible to touch without triggering the ad popup. How clever.

Which is why people want to block them completely lol

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by [deleted] »

vilmosi wrote: post #5

The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally find distasteful. >>> User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do something about it. The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps. Apple ge…

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Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by Nexxxeh »

alecco wrote: post #29
vilmosi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is adblocking on Android.

Ad blocking is very expensive. The iOS approach is the best idea. Have you seen the cost in memory and CPU of browser ad blocker extensions? That's prohibitive in mobile.

Have you tried Firefox and uBlock (maybe uBlock0, I forget) on a reasonable Android phone? It is amazing, and vastly superior to any other mobile browsing I've tried. Including Safari on an iPad.

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by forgetsusername »

GvS wrote: post #4
fvdessen wrote: post #2

I've been a happy Android user for a long time, but mobile ads are so bad that I'm seriously considering switching to iOS just for the adblocking.

I use adblocking on Android for years. Have you tried this? https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

>Requires root: Yes

Some of us can't be bothered.

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by sergiotapia »

alecco wrote: post #23
BukhariH wrote: post #9

As expected this is going to have a negative affect on ad revenues but what people forget is that publishers won't just accept lower revenues. They're going innovate. The easiest thing to implement would be a paywall but after the paywall we are going to see a rise in microtransactions for content. That being said there are advantages to the subscription model. Maybe, publishers will stop posting click-baity headline…

Good, no more blogspam/clickbait crap.

Precisely! I'm all for this quite honestly.

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by pakled_engineer »

fvdessen wrote: post #2

I've been a happy Android user for a long time, but mobile ads are so bad that I'm seriously considering switching to iOS just for the adblocking.

If you have SU/root, or build your own system.img you can use a hosts file to kill 99.9% of all in-app ads or apparently Adblock Plus has this feature too. The only time my hosts file failed was some simple weather app that refused to work when it detected no access to it's ad server so I rewrote it myself.

If you don't have root you can build your own VPN that can kill all ad traffic, a service that offers this must exist somewhere. If this all sounds too complicated buy an iPhone until Android enables an easy way to kill annoying mobile ads.

Re: The adblocking revolution is months away

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Post by onion2k »

ceejayoz wrote: post #22
vilmosi wrote: post #5

The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally find distasteful. >>> User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do something about it. The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps. Apple ge…

> Apple gets a cut on any money made from apps but not from Web ads. Not if those apps are free and using non-Apple advertising networks like AdMob.

Having apps locks you in to the ecosystem. If you're installing one app from the app store you're very likely to install others.
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