August 24, 2015

Ad Blocking On Mobile

More reasons to be excited by iOS9 …

iOS 9 comes with a new feature called ‘content blockers’ which allow developers to build apps for blocking advertisements.

Source : The Next Web via Doc Searls (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/08/24/ios-9-content-blocking-will-transform-the-mobile-web-ive-tried-it/)

More important, for our purposes, is that it’s VRM technology. It gives us a tool for personal agency. We can say no to stuff we don’t want.

[ Source : Doc Searls ]

And a more complete post from Doc Searls on this topic.

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