With your app, I don't see sponsored ads or adsense on Yahoo. However, on iPad Air, I see both.
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Unfortunate for Crystal however completely self inflicted. Developer was apparently not happy being the #1 paid app and decided to try making even more money. Advertisers only wanted to pay for sponsored ads because the app was #1. Now the app is crashing in the ratings and Eyeo (working w/advertisers) won't care to pay money to have a faltering app keep sneaking in their ads. Heck now the absolute first thing on the Murphy Apps website for an ad blocker is a banner telling the users how sponsored ads are totally cool. Don't worry everyone he did a survey!
This is a good cautionary tale for how quickly you can screw up a good thing on mobile platforms.
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Apple is processing a refund for Crystal
The developer's argument that it is optional op-out is malarkey. Set on by default
I told you people long time ago that anyone selling an adblocker is full of ****. Scum of the earth.
Yahoo doesn't show an ad under the carousel for me, I think it's something regional. But I've made something that, I think, would remove that ad. Please re-enable Essentials within the app and post your results.
And in my opinion, your comment is a bunch of crap.
A developer who creates an app to help fill a niche demand etc. is a developer that is participating in free enterprise. There is nothing inherently wrong with someone who creates a product and seeks to derive an income from his or her knowledge and labor. The problem enters into the equation when a developer engages in unethical behavior in regards to his or her product.
A paid adblocker is unethical. You can ask for a donation on your website if you want, but not sell it.
Whatever you did worked.
Thank you very much. I will apprize you if it happens to come back.
There is nothing unethical (in and of itself) about selling an ad-blocker on the app store.
Just because you don't think someone should get paid for their product, doesn't mean that said developer is unethical.
1. Developer creates an ad-blocker
2. Developer correctly explains the purpose and abilities of the app.
3. Developer clearly states the price of the app.
4. Developer answers questions about said product.
5. Developer markets the app and leaves it to the free-market as to whether or not his app does well and turns a profit.
There are many developers in the app store engaging in the aforementioned business model, and there is nothing unethical about it.
iPad Air is good now. iPhone still shows sponsored ads and what appears to be an adsense or adchoice ad underneath news carousel.
This could turn into a cat-and-mouse game. Today you fine tune blocking rules-works well-tomorrow the website makes server side changes rendering those rules ineffective, and the ads are back again. Wonder how it will play out...
This is another developer that will help. I've been going back and forth with him on Facebook messenger to help improve his app. He wants to help.
If someone is thinking about investing in an app, this is another to consider.
What's odd is, under Air 2 all good with Ad Block Multi. Under 6+, I see everything. Just weird.
Why unethical - I want a service and I am willing to pay for it. I don't want any ads - they are ruining the whole experience. Now we need ad blockers that work in apps since they are worse - some wanting us to buy apps we already have.
The concept of Google or Facebook making money off of me is outrageous if I don't want them to. Allowing companies to bypass ad blocking is unethical.
Yea, it is weird. It seems Yahoo has created a tangled web on purpose, to make it hard to prevent it showing all the time.
Please try refreshing inside the app again. It should eliminate that ad underneath the carousel. Can't help with sponsored ads for now, though. Just can't spot them on any of my devices.
No more ad under the carousel. As to the sponsored ads showing on iPhone, this is what I gathered off my iPhone 6 with one of the sponsored ads.
https://beap.gemini.yahoo.com/mbclk?bv=1.0.0&es=d_Q.qqsGIS9wB7Nh6hLOO09g7y.0Gc5tMLZjVE22Cml8bb00vG3rkZtnaABDnL_3Ki2RNABlzyJnS8d0Qg2I6WDvBHEwQMp5KjgG19lC1pmWpURZBLqsX1OmYn0wqH0yF06vacsJY9YNFHc5Qd2O0Pfwf4LZSsqX_YHvnF9gae7r56LeYkWlcIL83o1NLie4B6Oc_HUOabkF26jStMRy.tyPcktp9hZbQkkDgqaCxHCJ6Ux6KZEgwpllOGCLz2y4g1evYr_9k1GiKq2MRI6BLaHaxUDBalBV.cTs4swqC2x57W1uDAqrDKAWxFEDgJ.vguaTg58SlYVeJUFbaxSyP6uS9TUuiabZGjbbNDqjwYnuk3_0VSqybniy466pxgcwUSVMZzXNtfdQp8HfMqZDCNYpiBo9sU2q9mHT9jsnhYl9kDKPvkELFOvFocrpnaVRU4MRfm4bqWci&lp=http://www.sproutcontents.com/uw/egyptian-island
Dolphin's "Pro" version Adblocker ($2.99) is in the App Store. It will offer customization that's not available in the free version.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ad-blocker-pro-for-safari/id1041679545?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ad-blocker-pro-for-safari/id1041679545?mt=8
It also mentions a feature where a user can do a one-tap-to-report-a-problem with a site within Safari.. and it shows a screenshot of the Safari share sheet. Nice feature.
Perhaps he'll run a sale soon. I'll have to wait and see how this app pans out, added to my wish list for now.
This seems very very goooood. The free version is awesome.
BGG, would you review this?
I like the free one but on an iPad that app was just an upscaled, lowres version of the iPhone app and only worked in portrait mode. Does anyone know whether they fixed that? I don't install such apps on principle.