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Re:Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker by otabdeveloper1 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:54AM (#10232275)
> I am curious how this will impact the web.

It will make Google (the only ad company that actually outright steals personal data instead of acting nice and building Bayesian models) into a monopoly. You can't adblock the Google.

(Obviously I'm exaggerating for emotional impact, but the basic gist is true. This is not a good development for privacy on the Internet!)

Re:Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker by stephenr on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:55AM (#10232438)
> You can't adblock the Google.

Why not? I generally don't use Google services (certainly not their search), and (currently) Ghostery extension for Safari. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad, from any network, but certainly not Google.

Your earlier comment "you can't block .google.com" also doesn't really mean much, because ads on third-party sites are served from adclick.net and google-syndication.com - not from google.com.

Even if they changed that practice, and started using google.com to serve their ads - I'd happily block it. I don't want them to track me anonymously so why would I give them my information willingly by using their services?

Re:Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker by tomp on Thursday September 17, 2015 @06:37AM (#10232549)
> You can't adblock the Google.

Why not? Even if they start serving their ads via google.com, you can still block them on by URL-matching, or same-origin filters...