Apple's iOS ad-blocking is a net, not a gun

codinghorror · July 11, 2015, 4:47am

I am not clear myself. Reading the source article they link to this

And that person says this is the “code”, but it is only JSON data, which implies Mobile Safari contains the blocking code, it just needs to be fed a list of data – domains and URLs to block…

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/d45857e4b6d7d1af9865

blockerList.json

[
    {
        "action": {
            "type": "block"
        },
        "trigger": {
            "url-filter": ".*",
            "resource-type": ["script"],
            "load-type": ["third-party"],
            "if-domain": ["imore.com"]

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@gwwar your thoughts?

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Apple's iOS ad-blocking is a net, not a gun

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