| ▲ | JKCalhoun 9 hours ago |
| I ignore Apple News these days. I had high hopes when Apple bought the company that eventually became their News app. Alas… Of course I hate that I can't block ads, but at the same time, I wonder if the unblockable ads are not, in fact, a help for that "struggling industry". |
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| ▲ | givinguflac 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You can definitely block ads- try NextDNS. |
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| ▲ | mikestew 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’ve tried blocking the ads with a pi-hole, to no avail. I suspect the ads come from the same servers that the articles do. I can’t find obvious ad servers in the query logs. If anyone has a hint on blocking Apple News ads at DNS, I’d love to hear it. | | |
| ▲ | skygazer 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | 1Blocker, with their in-app tracker blocking turned on, will block Apple News ads on iOS/iPadOS and will also block ads in Google News and free to play games. I guess you can’t block tracking without also blocking the ads. It installs a local VPN profile that blocks connections to hosts typically blocked with dns based ad blockers. They’ve increasingly hidden the feature in the app, for some reason. |
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| ▲ | lotsofpulp 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 90% of the content in the News+ app is itself an ad. |
