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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by wtvanhest on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:12AM (#14450554)
One thing I can't firgure out is why reddit is pushing me to use their app when the site is better. I dont even understand why they want to.
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by suprfnk on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:02AM (#14450678)
A reason might be because it's harder to block ads in an app than it is in a browser?
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by WildGreenLeave on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:22AM (#14450723)
As far as I know it isn't possible to block ads inside the Android Chrome browser? Only way to do that is using your own DNS, but that would work both on native and progressive apps.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to block ads inside my Chrome browser.

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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by jorams on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:33AM (#14450750)
It's not possible in Chrome on Android, but it is in Firefox.
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by suprfnk on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:03AM (#14450837)
Ah right. I don't know about Android, but it's possible on Safari on my iPhone.
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by wtvanhest on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:15AM (#14453153)
Idk, it actually prompted me to download a new browser to try to block the 'ads' for their app.
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by brandnewlow on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:06AM (#14450687)
You get more ad targeting and messaging powers via native apps than web apps.
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Re:Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week by mxstbr on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:16AM (#14450713)
I doubt that's going to last much longer now that they're rewriting the whole website, or at least I hope that's the case. (see the huge pro/contra CSS discussion)
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