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Day: September 18, 2015

On ad blocking

Nilay Patel has a piece at the Verge on the availability of ad blocking plugins for the web browser in the new version of iOS.  She has an interesting theory of what motivated Apple to allow ad blocking, that it was essentially to attack Google's revenue model.  But the overall piece seems to take the … Continue reading On ad blocking →

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