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Title: Apple pulls the plug on in-app ad-blockers Post by: HCK on October 12, 2015, 03:00:14 am Apple pulls the plug on in-app ad-blockers
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple decided to allow ad-blocking in mobile Safari with iOS 9, but the company has no intention of allowing apps that install root certificates to block ads in other apps—no way, no how.</p><p> That means big changes for apps like Been Choice (https://twitter.com/beenchoice), which users could install to block ads in Safari as well as apps like Facebook, Pinterest, and Apple News. Apple pulled Been Choice and a few apps like it, because the method used for in-app ad-blocking installs root certificates that collect your website visits and deliver that information to the ad-blocker. Apple considers this a security violation. Safari ad-blocking apps can’t do that, which is why they haven’t been affected.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2991342/security/apple-pulls-the-plug-on-in-app-ad-blockers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple pulls the plug on in-app ad-blockers (http://www.macworld.com/article/2991342/security/apple-pulls-the-plug-on-in-app-ad-blockers.html#tk.rss_all) |