People are so desperate to block ads that they’re opening themselves to attack
Oct09
Apple delivered an official way to block ads in Safari with the release of iOS 9 in September, but there’s a growing trend of people attempting to block every ad in iOS, and doing dangerous things to get there. Been, which received a large amount of press coverage, is one of these bad ideas. The app installed a root certificate on your phone, along with a VPN profile in order to block advertising within apps, like Facebook, Yahoo and Google by proxying all traffic through a service — tempting, but dangerous. The problem is that Been needed to capture all your internet traffic, decrypt it, remove the ads,…
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