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Apple Removes Some Ad Blockers From App Store for Installing Root Certificates
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Opera Mini used to do that for SSL traffic, and I always thought it was odd. Part of the benefit of Opera Mini was that all your traffic (including https) went through their proxy server and some stuff was compressed. I just checked it now though, and it seems to be communicating directly with the remote server. Not really sure when that changed. I did a Google search and didn't come up with anything.
Don't worry you're still covered.
There are three types of blockers:
1. iOS9-type content blocking extensions like 1blocker, Purify, Adamant. This type are great, as we know.
2. VPN-type blockers like the ones that have been removed. I'd be wary of this type.
3. PAC-type blockers like Weblock and NoAds. These only work on WiFi, but are otherwise solid.
(PAC is a mechanism by which the operating system uses a simple script file to choose when to use a proxy. In this case the decision is to send all ad requests elsewhere)
One of the reasons I still jailbreak, to block ads in apps as well as in any browser. It modifies the hosts file to block ads, safer then what these removed apps did.
I also block ads in everything on my SP3 using a hosts file as well.
Apple stores content blockers aren't needed for this.
They both have their risks. I agree your way is safer. Hope I yearn for a device that I spend$1000 for and still isn't controlled by some giant corporation. If it weren't for what the Linux open source movement, our PCs would be just as locked down and controlled as our phones by now.
Porco has it right here and many of you are missing a very important detail. The apps in question could only install a root certificate if you first purposely installed a provisioning profile on your iOS device. Therefore, yet again, they only people effected by these apps are those stupid enough to purposely subvert Apple's normal protections and install an untrusted profile, from an untrusted third party, and click through the warnings that are required to do so.
This seems to be a broken record lately. First, stupid users expose themselves to risk by either jailbreaking their phone or installing untrusted profiles or apps. Then, either security company spreads misinformation about how it's Apple's fault, or the same stupid users blame Apple for not protecting them from their own stupidity.
Guess what, if you allow an untrusted 3rd party to have "root" of any device, with any OS, then you are already owned! It's your fault, and no company can protect you from your own stupidity.
When they announced ad blocking support for iOS9 I was hopeful it would be a Safari plug in, or a toggle in the settings screen or something like that. I'm not really interested in downloading an app to do it and I'm really glad I didn't now! Hopefully iOS10 will have such a feature.
Really can't stand adverts. Too often they're distracting, have tiny close buttons so you accidentally click a link, and use up precious mobile data.
Really can't stand adverts. Too often they're distracting, have tiny close buttons so you accidentally click a link, and use up precious mobile data.
It's also the reason why Apple (nor any other vendor) can't win when it comes to customisation and flexibility. Fifty per cent of their customers demand to be allowed to do X, the other fifty per cent complain that Apple didn't stop them from doing X and exposing themselves to a privacy risk/crash/data loss.
It basically is that once you download an ad blocker. The iOS 9 ad blockers are not the ones discussed and affected by what is mentioned in this article.
I just wish that if you have a content blocker active, it should come into play, whenever a Safari-based web view is used, wether in an app, or not.
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