iOS 9 allows developers to build ad blocking extensions

Jun10

by Sindy Cator on June 10, 2015 at 8:34 am

A new feature buried in the developer documents for iOS 9 suggests Apple is building in support for ad blocking and privacy apps, with a new API that removes elements from Web views. The new “Content Blocking” feature allows developers to pass a JSON file with a set of rules for images, popups, cookies, resources and other elements in Safari. Content Blocker is live in iOS 9 beta builds right now, with the menu option explaining that “Content Blockers affect what content is loaded while using Safari” but offering no options until an app that adds blocking functionality is deployed. Such a…