Hi Grant, Briefly there are two ways to do ad-blocking in Safari: event-based and list-based. The event-based method is exclusive to OS X and has been around for quite a bit; the list-based method is new to iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. The market on the Mac has been served by event-based ad blockers for a while now, and thus the list-based extensions (which are fewer and more limited) are not as popular or well-known. On iOS, of course, where ad blocking is now possible, it’s a different story altogether. Event-based blockers are script, as any other extension is. On iOS, the list-based blockers maintain the lists for use by Safari; there is therefore no way for ad-blocking, by itself, while you are in Safari, to communicate with the network. On mac the lack of compartmentalisation means that anything is possible, regardless of whether Safari uses the same mechanism. Still, unless you are careless, I doubt you have anything to fear from any ad-blocking on that platform.
My preference is the old-style AdBlock (not AdBlock Plus, although nowadays the differences are few). There are others out there, but I appreciate the maintenance profile of AdBlock; it’s mostly set and forget. My network is also doing ad-blocking at the DNS level, so many iOS apps suddenly can’t get their ads anymore (sorry guys, but it is the path you have chosen). Doubtless many other iOS users will be feeling the same joy when they discover that webviews now get Safari’s ad-blocking; webviews are how many apps display their ads. Oh, and it helps that Apple is disbanding iAd. Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
