New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why hasnt Apple created an ad-blocker in the system level for iOS?
Ask HN: Why hasn’t Apple created an ad-blocker in the system level for iOS?
5 by blindprogrammer | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I think if Apple created an ad-blocker like the legendary u-blockOrigin for iOS, their brand will be strengthen, and subscription service more in demand. Imagine you use your iPhone and will not ever see any ad regardless of the app you use? Sure, most apps will go away because without ads, no one would pay for them, but are these apps really important for you anyway? I think the $99 they make from app developers will be less compared to thousands of apps that are high quality and subscription-based that will giving Apple a cut every month. So, why hasn’t Apple created a system level adblocker that is baked in to the boot loader for the iOS, and make it virtually impossible for any advertising company like Google or FB to circumvent it? Google has Android, but Facebook literally can’t survive without selling ads, so if Apple created a system-level ad-blocker where in every video and every text, the OS itself filters out and blocks ads, Facebook would be in big trouble since they don’t have their own hardware (hardware that people care about and use, that is).
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5 by blindprogrammer | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I think if Apple created an ad-blocker like the legendary u-blockOrigin for iOS, their brand will be strengthen, and subscription service more in demand. Imagine you use your iPhone and will not ever see any ad regardless of the app you use? Sure, most apps will go away because without ads, no one would pay for them, but are these apps really important for you anyway? I think the $99 they make from app developers will be less compared to thousands of apps that are high quality and subscription-based that will giving Apple a cut every month. So, why hasn’t Apple created a system level adblocker that is baked in to the boot loader for the iOS, and make it virtually impossible for any advertising company like Google or FB to circumvent it? Google has Android, but Facebook literally can’t survive without selling ads, so if Apple created a system-level ad-blocker where in every video and every text, the OS itself filters out and blocks ads, Facebook would be in big trouble since they don’t have their own hardware (hardware that people care about and use, that is).
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