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1 posted on 09/21/2015 8:11:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Rush Limbaugh's analysis on why Apple has suddenly allowed Ad Blocking apps on iOS 9. Interesting take. — PING!


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2 posted on 09/21/2015 8:14:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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Amen, brother! Bring on that ad blocker, cant wait to have it on my iPad. Some advertising is reasonable, but on a lot of these sites it is out of control. Breitbart is a good example of that. Just trying to read the article, but stuff is so constantly moving around and crashing the browser, I can’t even do that.


3 posted on 09/21/2015 8:22:56 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: Swordmaker

Welcome to 2006. At least on Windows browsers anyway.


4 posted on 09/21/2015 8:29:54 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Swordmaker
Personally I'm a big Google fan. I may not like their politics but their technology is first class.

Look at what an asset YouTube is compared to a few years ago before Google bought it. My life would be way better if Google and not Microsoft had bought Skype. Skype would actualy work and would be 4K resolution by now.

And look at Google itself. Can you imagine having something like we have today 30 years ago? Would we even have believed it possible?

I'm glad to let Google collect their ad revenue. And when I run into a web page that takes 45 seconds to load I just head back FR and maybe Drudge and watch them load in a few hundred milliseconds.

5 posted on 09/21/2015 8:34:15 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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D@@@@@@@@@@@@@@mn that’s insightful.
Thermonuclear war, just as Jobs threatened.
Google is built entirely on serving ads, and Apple (owning half the smartphone market and rapidly chewing up the PC market) is going to make ‘em all go away.
Wow.


6 posted on 09/21/2015 8:35:02 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Swordmaker

I see it more likely that the ad blockers will be regulated (made illegal) or this will be the catalyst for paid (taxed) browsing.
Rush should realize the free market is gone.


7 posted on 09/21/2015 8:35:47 PM PDT by CygnusXI
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To: Swordmaker

I’d like to know which ad blocker ap is the way to go. Ads loading taking up time is one thing, having to pay extra in the data package because of all the extra data the ads use is really aggravating.


9 posted on 09/21/2015 8:38:28 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Swordmaker

Good analysis and this is an opportunity for creative destruction.


10 posted on 09/21/2015 9:59:58 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Open a web page that has 4 or 5 movies all start playing at once, you couldn’t listen to a commercial if you wanted to. I guess they get paid if the movie even starts, sometimes they are completely hidden only way to stop is leave the page.


11 posted on 09/21/2015 10:10:02 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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What are these advertisements they keep speaking of? TG for Adblock plus, only the very occasional video sneaks in, and I’ll find out how to kill it sometime soon. I only get reminded of adverts when i fire up one of my offbrand browsers that aren’t equipped to squash ads. Heh.


18 posted on 09/22/2015 2:52:15 AM PDT by W. (I piss on the muslims & their retarded koran! Get out of my country!)
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They can just do what Rush does - work in 15 minutes of commercial as program “content.”


19 posted on 09/22/2015 3:17:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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... because the percentage of iOS users in the developed world, with customers that spend money, is an overwhelming percentage using Apple’s iOS.

Smart man, that Limbaugh. iOS users using iOS doesn't get by him, no sir.

22 posted on 09/22/2015 4:29:20 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: Swordmaker

As long as we are buying our bandwidth from the US wireless oligopoly - where every byte is priced like it was hand-mined by gnomes on the third moon of Uranus - I will use ad blockers and encourage others to do so.


23 posted on 09/22/2015 5:09:31 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Call me a "Free Traitor" if it amuses you. It will only strengthen my resolve.)
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To: Swordmaker
new ways to have their advertising presented to you, disguised as news stories

If the ads are presented as paragraphs of text, I really don't have any problem with that.

24 posted on 09/22/2015 5:11:26 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Call me a "Free Traitor" if it amuses you. It will only strengthen my resolve.)
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