alt Hacker NewsThe problem is that we'd all blocklist advertisers and then they'd all cry. It's like how most mobile distros don't allow you to control relative app volume - if it might hurt ad bucks it can't be allowed.
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b00ty4breakfast • today at 7:04 PM
The ad industry underwrites the consumer tech market. That's why you can buy a SmartTV for like 100 bucks (or whatever, I haven't bought a tv in like 10 years knock-on-wood).
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advisedwang • today at 6:50 PM
Good point. I originally thought this would just be content categories. Maybe that's all that's plausible.
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This isn’t even a hypothetical. On most phone there’s no toggle to completely block an app’s internet access (only its data usage).