Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
by mikestew on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:51AM
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If it's anything like the ones I looked at a while back, it goes through a proxy to strip the ads. So all of your web browsing goes through a 3rd party. I'm no technical wiz on such things, but I can't think of how else it could work without being an Apple-approved Safari extension.
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Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:52PM
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It could run a local proxy on the device itself, perhaps. I know iPhone apps can expose HTTP servers to other devices on WiFi for file sharing, so I wouldn't be surprised if you can expose it to localhost too.
Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
by mikestew on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:56PM
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Mm, good point, and given that I actually wrote a baby web server for serving up docs a long time ago, I'm disappointed that it didn't occur to me. In fact, I wonder why more don't do that. All of the ones I looked at (and it's hardly an all-encompassing list) seemed to do it through a proxy that the dev hosted.