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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Oct 17
Cc:
mard...@chromium.org
█ ghendel@chromium.org
pinkerton@chromium.org
pkl@chromium.org
ios-bugs@chromium.org
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OS: iOS
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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[iOS] Not clear for user, if ChromeForIOS is using an Adblocker or not

Project Member Reported by meh...@chromium.org, Sep 10 
Chrome Version: Chrome For iOS Version 69
OS: iOS 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Use Chrome For iOS on iPhone or iPad
(2) Navigate through the Chrome Settings
(3)

What is the expected result?
To see an option to enable/disable Adblocker

What happens instead?
There is no option to enable/disable Adblocker, which confuses because Android (and also Desktop) has a switch for it, right? So it is not clear to me if Chrome for iOS use an Adblocker or not.

Thanks for looking into the issue.
Mehmet

Comment 1 by pkl@chromium.org, Sep 10

Cc: ghendel@chromium.org mard...@chromium.org pinkerton@chromium.org
Components: Mobile>WebView>Glue
Labels: -Type-Bug -Pri-2 Pri-3 Type-Feature
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Chrome iOS does not have ad blocker support. Considering this a feature request.

Comment 2 by meh...@chromium.org, Sep 10 

Thanks for your feedback. I think this is really necessary on iOS, too, since Safari and Firefox can block Ads. An Adblocker and the marketing for it would probably give ChromeForIOS a huge installation drive. Thanks :)

Comment 3 by eugene...@chromium.org, Oct 16

Components: -Mobile>WebView>Glue UI>Browser>AdFilter

Comment 4 by pkl@chromium.org, Oct 17

Status: WontFix (was: Available)
Not disagreeing with you request, but it just isn't possible given how little support iOS offers for integration.

Comment 5 by meh...@chromium.org, Oct 17 

I am really sad about this. I am not a Dev, but why all other browsers can support it? E.g. Firefox? I thought iOS had opened it for an integration of Content Blockers?

Comment 6 by pkl@chromium.org, Oct 17 

iOS opened up the ability for app developers to write Content Blockers (extensions) that works with Safari. AFAIK, there's no ability for a browser app (like Chrome) to use these Content Blocker extensions.

Comment 7 by meh...@chromium.org, Oct 17 

Okay, understand. Thanks for your feedback.

I read that browsers using WKWebwiew (https://blog.chromium.org/2016/01/a-faster-more-stable-chrome-on-ios.html) can now add blocking-lists to hide Ads. Maybe this is the browsers like Focus/Firefox are handling this on iOS (e.g. with the open source blocking list from disconnect.me)? May be that can be an option for Chrome too? I also found issue 757647 which probably addresses the same issue for iOS?

Thanks for listening :)
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