It's an interesting point actually. If I scraped a website's content, served it up from my own servers, with my own ads on the side, I wouldn't last 5 minutes. Yet if it's an RSS feed, it's okay?
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iOS 9: More than meets the eye
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It's an interesting point actually. If I scraped a website's content, served it up from my own servers, with my own ads on the side, I wouldn't last 5 minutes. Yet if it's an RSS feed, it's okay?
Junior Mint
Member
Weird I would have thought it would be the other way around. Maybe I'll hold off on peace
strikeselect
You like me, you really really like me!
When I was testing Crystal I noticed it had problems loading images on Yahoo and was allowing ads on Youtube.
Purify has no issues and it also loads sites faster than Crystal. There's a perceivable difference in speed.
Purify has no issues and it also loads sites faster than Crystal. There's a perceivable difference in speed.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Their site doesn't have to have an RSS feed. They choose to. Apple isn't taking anything, they're giving it
So? I don't have to have a website, doesn't mean people can scrape it and serve it up from their own server with their own ads.
I'm of the mindset that users are free to control whatever their browser loads, just as publishers are free to publish what they want or restrict their content in whatever way they wish.
Just bought it and tried it on the site that was always the worst for me in terms of load times (consumerist.com) and it loads ridiculously fast now. I love it
Silentium
Member
Just bought this, very happy with the performance. Arment hits another home run.
I'll be interested to see if Arment's license with Ghostery is exclusive, or whether we'll start to see other apps use their database (which is definitely superior to the shotgun, million item long lists floating around the net). EDIT: Viticci's article on MacStories seems to suggest the Ghostery license is exclusive.
Zeyphersan
Banned
What does "Open in Peace" do if it's just a content blocker?
If you're in a third party app that hasn't updated to use Safari as its built in browser, you can use a share sheet to open the web page with that so ads are blocked.
exmachina64
Banned
Awesome.
Glass Shark
Banned
Content producers who submit their feeds to Apple News can still sell ads against that content, or better yet, let Apple do it and still make like 90% of the ad revenue.
With content blockers they get nothing.
Also after installing Peace it made me switch from AdBlock Plus to Ghostery on Mac as well, things seem faster.
With content blockers they get nothing.
Also after installing Peace it made me switch from AdBlock Plus to Ghostery on Mac as well, things seem faster.
blackaroni
Member
I think I like this one the best because you have the option to turn on and off the embedded social media stuff. Purify just blocked that with no option to enable.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Sweeeeeeeet, thanks
Junior Mint
Member
I just tried peace. It still leaves behind remnants of where the ads would have been even though the ads themselves are gone. For example, the mobile version of www.blogto.com has a banner ad on the bottom of the page. Using Peace removes the ad but the shaded part where the ad would have been is still present. Using any other content blockers completely removes it.
Mine is monthly but I'm stuck at 20 also
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Exactly. It would be hard to argue, given that it's 2015 and Apple is just adding this feature, that this is an active strike against advertising; rather, this is reactive. After a long time of performance degrading year after year, Apple decided to do something about it. No one can say this wasn't a long time coming. No one can say that the problem wasn't real. *shrugs*
(Unfortunately by requiring 64-bit iOS devices, they actually make it hard for the people who most need this to take advantage of it)
Well you can try to link to it and see if it's frowned upon:
http://www.********
Looks like it.
LyleLanley
Banned
Is anyone able to use spotlight to search within third party apps? I know Yelp and Dropbox have been updated to support it but it doesn't seem to work for me yet.
Not the same thing as its more convenient now. By working within safari, now the default browser can block ads. Third party browsers were never as fast as safari and clicking links in other apps would open safari and not the third party browser with the ad blocking
Silentium
Member
Annual plans are grandfathered according to this Apple KB article, looks like you'll have to change to a monthly plan for the new quotas/pricing.
Junior Mint
Member
It works. It's just an utterly useless implementation of something that could be useful. Type in something like Chinese food and you'll see Yelp show up.
LyleLanley
Banned
I just tried that and I get Maps, Mail, Suggested Website, Web Videos, Bing Search, Search Web & Search App Store. No Yelp.
Can I get a refund for the 10.99 charge?
Do you have Yelp 10.2?
LyleLanley
Banned
I think you have 15 days to change your iCloud plan and get a refund.
Yup, updated earlier today.
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Zeyphersan
Banned
Not working for me either
I just went through the Spotlight Search section of settings and turned off a ton of stuff. Looks like every app you have downloaded is included by default
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Deleted member 22576
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I've always not installed Yelp because I hate it, but if I install it now will I see restaurants and stuff in spotlight, etc?
LyleLanley
Banned
For some reason it just started working for me.
Zeyphersan
Banned
You're welcome
LyleLanley
Banned
Thank you, can you do the same for Dropbox now?
Edit:
Now Yelp isn't showing up anymore. I give up.
Yeah I have this same problem with two updates. I just imagine they'll go away at some point. Not particularly intrusive but definitely weird.
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Oh no, did they remove using the side switch for rotation lock?
Really good first impressions. It was janky for the first few minutes on both my 6 Plus and Air 2 but it quickly stabilized. Just some initial indexing I assume. No performance issues since.
Crystal does noticeably speed up page loading and makes things cleaner to read. Especially helpful since any gaming website that isn't GAF is usually covered with awful ads.
Slide over and multitasking will be great when more apps support them. None of the apps I use other than Safari really support them right now. Slide over doesn't play nice with things like Hearthstone that can't be put into standby either. It's one of those features that will just get better and better over time.
Same with picture in picture. Lovely for GAF browsing for in-line videos but otherwise useless since third party apps don't support it yet. You also can't close the tab of any video you're playing.
Crystal does noticeably speed up page loading and makes things cleaner to read. Especially helpful since any gaming website that isn't GAF is usually covered with awful ads.
Slide over and multitasking will be great when more apps support them. None of the apps I use other than Safari really support them right now. Slide over doesn't play nice with things like Hearthstone that can't be put into standby either. It's one of those features that will just get better and better over time.
Same with picture in picture. Lovely for GAF browsing for in-line videos but otherwise useless since third party apps don't support it yet. You also can't close the tab of any video you're playing.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
You know what needs Deep Search Integration? All video apps so you can search for a TV show and can a result from all streaming services, like on the AppleTV.
I tried searching for Portlandia, and then even Movies, but I didnt get any in-app searches yet.
I tried searching for Portlandia, and then even Movies, but I didnt get any in-app searches yet.
LyleLanley
Banned
That should be possible, we just need those apps to be updated first.
Zeyphersan
Banned
The problem eventually did fix itself. I assume it was server stuff
Zeyphersan
Banned
They changed a few things with Apple Music I like. Clicking the three dots has DRASTICALLY reduced the number of menu options, and there's now an option to stream high quality music in cellular
Still a lot of work to be done, but progress
