Apple pulls the plug on in-app ad-blockers

Macworld
Oct 9, 2015, 12:53 pm558 pts
Apple decided to allow ad-blocking in mobile Safari with iOS 9, but the company has no intention of allowing apps that install root certificates to block adds in other apps—no way, no how. That means big changes for apps like Been Choice, which users could install to block ads in Safari as well as apps like…

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