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26th September 2019, 14:24 | #1 |
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| How Apple was as evil as Google But no one cared When Google started gutting the effectiveness of ad blockers on its Chrome browser, there was an outcry; but for some reason, no one cared that Apple had done the same thing for a year and a half. Google wanted to limit the maximum rules an extension could pass to Chrome to 30,000, which many Chrome extension developers said was extremely low, and wouldn't even begin to accommodate the likes of ad blockers, parental control or traffic inspection extensions. The company was immediatelly attacked for trying to "kill ad blockers" and after months of criticism, Google eventually backed down on its initial plan and settled on a higher limit ranging from 90,000 to 120,000, a number that many extension developers, and especially those managing ad blockers, still consider insufficient. On the other side, when Apple rolled out the new Content Blocker API, it enforced a maximum limit of 50,000 rules for each new extension that wanted to block content inside Safari. Of course AdBlock was running faster. It had fewer rules to apply than before. Unlike Google, Apple never received any flak, and instead, the Tame Apple Press pushed a sound byte that Apple was caring about users' privacy, rather than attempting to "neuter ad blockers". One of the reasons might be that few people use Apple's Safari, and Apple doesn't rely on ads for its profits, meaning there was no ulterior motive behind its ecosystem changes. Besides Apple fanboys tend to believe what ever their Mighty Overlord tells them. https://fudzilla.com/news/49454-how-...evil-as-google |
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