Apple iOS9: How to Enable Safari Ad-Blockers

Posted by Staff writer on Sep 29, 2015 09:00 AM EDT

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Last September 9 in the Apple event, the tech giant revealed their new iPhone 6S and other latest devices. Together with some hardware upgrades, software upgrades were also expected. And as expected by many people, iOS 9 was later on introduced with some significant and helpful changes. For the new iOS 9 comes with a new version of Safari that lets users block ads on iPhones and iPads. Definitely giving Apple device users a power to block ads or contents is indeed a game changer in the context of mobile advertising. For knowing how to enable Safari ad-blockers in iOS 9 makes it more difficult for mobile advertisers to get significant share of the audience.

For those people who are tired of closing ads and unnecessary contents, this is how you activate ad-blocking extensions to work in Safari in iOS 9. You need first to download an ad-blocking application from the App Store, and its good know most of these apps come for me. After downloading the free content blocker of your choice, you may go directly to your 'Settings' page in order to enable the app. If you are already on the 'Safari setting page', click on the 'Content Blocker' in order to fully enable the application in your system. After you enable it in the settings page of Safari, you may customize it and it's good to go. Now, you don't need to be a rocket scientist in order to know how to enable Safari ad-blockers in iOS 9. And if still you are having trouble regarding how to enable Safari ad-blockers in iOS 9, you may consult this short video clip for detailed guide.

Letting users know how to enable Safari ad-blockers in iOS 9 is indeed a strategic move for Apple. This strategic move has been carefully studied by the team as it is made evident on their website. On Apple's website, particularly on their developer's library, a message speaks of the Content Blocking Safari Extensions that new Safari release brings to iOS. This new content blocking mechanism incorporated in the iOS gives users of iPhones a plus experience of a fast and efficient way to block cookies, images, resources, pop-up ads, and other unnecessary contents in the page. The said bulletin specified how this content blocking mechanism functions and it was stated that;

"Your app extension is responsible for supplying a JSON file to Safari. The JSON consists of an array of rules (triggers and actions) for blocking specified content. Safari converts the JSON to bytecode, which it applies efficiently to all resource loads without leaking information about the user's browsing back to the app extension. Xcode includes a Content Blocker App Extension template that contains code to send your JSON file to Safari. Just edit the JSON file in the template to provide your own triggers and actions. The sample JSON file below contains triggers and actions that block images on webkit.org."

And by the way it's good to note that only 64-bit devices have a content blocking extension for there have been performance limitations observed among 32-bit devices. What do you think about this update? Feel free to share and comment below?