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This makes me wish we had extensions in Chrome on Android. uBlock would be very welcome.
Why not give Firefox a try then? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
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Why not give Firefox a try then? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
Firefox on Android is awful. Try to load any mildly heavy webpage (such as Verge) and scroll through it, you'll see how it struggles. (This on a Nexus 5.)
[1] http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/
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Firefox on Android is awful. Try to load any mildly heavy webpage (such as Verge) and scroll through it, you'll see how it struggles. (This on a Nexus 5.)
The solution is not to load awfully slow webpages like Verge (see [1]), not to mention their content has been sub-par for a long time. [1] http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/
That said, it can be browsed well on Chrome, so it should work on Fx as well.
Just bought and tried (in this order): Crystal, Purify and Peace. Each has features to like. Crystal has a great price and is the only one to let you report an ad not blocked or broken page so that the ad block list can be updated. Purify lets you block scripts and images on top of font-blocking options also in Peace. Crystal missed an ad that Purify (and Peace) caught, but Peace was the only one that seriously remov…
I guess that a fart app should probably not cost anything since it's quite useless, but I do believe that it's a problem that on day one of a whole new App Store category, the first app launched, Crystal (it appeared hours before Purify and Peace for me anyways) is a free app. That's how you make mobile apps an unsustainable business. I don't know how much work has gone into making these content blocker apps, but I b…
That is, for you to be profitable, you rely on someone else not doing something.
That is the nature of competition.
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I guess that a fart app should probably not cost anything since it's quite useless, but I do believe that it's a problem that on day one of a whole new App Store category, the first app launched, Crystal (it appeared hours before Purify and Peace for me anyways) is a free app. That's how you make mobile apps an unsustainable business. I don't know how much work has gone into making these content blocker apps, but I b…
You know these apps rely on very very long lists of domains to be blocked that lots of people have gathered during the course of years and that the developers of those adblocker apps just took those lists for free? So that's what those apps should cost.
I am curious how this will impact the web. Ads are the only revenue stream for most of the sites. Blocking ads is good for user experience but when you think from publishers site how will they survive? "I like ads because I can support people I like without even spending a dime" said one of my friends. I cannot agree more because there are plenty of people on mid and small scale try to earn living with the content th…
So use an ad network that doesn't unnecessarily track me across the entire web, destroy my battery life, and make reading content (particularly on mobile) a game of 'find the article' amongst the shit storm of ads. The number of things that everyday sites embed in their pages is phenomenal. The Ghostery extension gives a good idea about how much crap gets loaded. In an article about content blockers, http://www.imore…
If the site has too many ads for your taste, simply don't visit that site. You have some sense that you are entitled to whatever efforts the site owner has committed to bring you content (obviously enough effort to be interesting to you) without supporting them through the ad service they chose. If you don't like their ads, you could simply move on, but now you're taking the fruits of their labor without giving them the passive support they ask in return.
I'm not saying its right or wrong, but the attitude of "they did what I don't like, so im going to do x" is very much entitled...
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https://pagefair.com/press_release/pagefair-2015-report/ literally first link on google also, browser share: http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-201408-201...
The browser share graph shows Safari is second only to Chrome globally. The page has a new item saying 'Safari accounted for over half of US mobile and tablet usage in March', so I don't understand your "relatively tiny market share" point.
the point is SPECIFICALLY about 'desktop+tablet+mobile' market share. not among mobile alone, because ad revenue is not factored on mobile views only as well.
you need to select the all browser from the dropdown.
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Because software developers are people who like to eat too?
Like all the small publishers that get ruined by adblocking?
Sorry, but no.
Those publishers have the option of asking their readers to pay for the content directly, which is exactly what the developer does.
They also have the option to use ad networks that aren't completely user-hostile.
Intentional or not, allowing ad blocking on the mobile web should push content creators that rely on ad revenue to develop native applications. This seems like a double win for Apple.
Just bought and tried (in this order): Crystal, Purify and Peace. Each has features to like. Crystal has a great price and is the only one to let you report an ad not blocked or broken page so that the ad block list can be updated. Purify lets you block scripts and images on top of font-blocking options also in Peace. Crystal missed an ad that Purify (and Peace) caught, but Peace was the only one that seriously remov…
I guess that a fart app should probably not cost anything since it's quite useless, but I do believe that it's a problem that on day one of a whole new App Store category, the first app launched, Crystal (it appeared hours before Purify and Peace for me anyways) is a free app. That's how you make mobile apps an unsustainable business. I don't know how much work has gone into making these content blocker apps, but I b…