2015-09-18
The developer of the wildly popular ad blocking app Peace is pulling it from the App Store after just two days because of his new misgivings about the thorough way it blocks ads
The app rocketed to the number one spot of the App Store's top-downloaded list on Wednesday evening after Apple's iOS 9 update allowed content blocking in Safari for the first time. Several other new ad blocking apps also cracked the chart's top ten.
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But developer Marco Arment wrote in his blog on Friday that the app's runaway success has left him feeling uneasy about the fact that the app indiscriminately blocks all ads. Read more...
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