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Title: Here's why ad blockers don't work in the Apple News app Post by: HCK on August 29, 2016, 04:05:25 pm Here's why ad blockers don't work in the Apple News app
Why don't content blockers — aka ad blockers — work in Apple News? Here's the deal! Apple's content blocker extensions, released last year, let third party apps set up rules to block ads, web fonts, comments, and other content in Safari and the also-new Safari View Controller, used in apps like Tweetbot to show web pages. Content blockers don't, however, work in Apple's own News app. So, if a publisher doesn't serve Apple News Format, or provide a full RSS feed for Apple News to render, Apple News has to go out and get the original web page... ads and all. That's has led some to ask if there's a massive massive conspiracy at play designed to protect the ads of publishers enrolled in Apple's News program. The truth, of course, is far simpler and more mundane. iOS content blockers only work in Safari and Safari View Controller News.app isn't Safari and doesn't use Safari View Controller. Safari View Controller offers a lot of performance and power, but it's tightly locked down ... Source: Here's why ad blockers don't work in the Apple News app (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/pPYflpqU1wY/heres-why-ad-blockers-dont-work-apple-news-app) |