Rush's take on why Apple OKed
Ad Blocking Apps on iOS 9
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Posted on 09/21/2015 8:11:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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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.
Welcome to 2006. At least on Windows browsers anyway.
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.
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.
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.
Breitbart USED to do that...but not since AdBlockerPlus!
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.
Good analysis and this is an opportunity for creative destruction.
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.
Washington Times and Huffington Post are a disaster with ads and videos loading.
They can still serve their ads. Just not this browser-killing, 9’different video stream-playing, stuff moving all over the damn screen BS.
And Mac OS X Browsers had ad blockers as well for longer than that. . . This is for iOS and ads on iOS browsers have not been much of an issue until lately.
Schmidt stole iOS. Gates and Jobs robbed Xerox.
Not good, long term.
I feel similarly about Google. My only complaint beside their politics is that their GUIs have a tendency to be poorly designed. Regarding advertising, I’ve got no problem with it. To me it’s a small price to pay for all the otherwise free content. Most sites strike an acceptable balance with the ads. The sites that are too annoying I don’t return to.
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
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.
They can just do what Rush does - work in 15 minutes of commercial as program “content.”
I have a gen 1 ipad. Can’t get a OS upgrade anymore. Can’t watch youtube videos w/o going thru contortions .
For some months now it chokes often while trying to surf. Safari just stops.
My wife’s gen 2 , running a later OS chokes also. Not as often but similar.
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