Collective thoughts on content blockers

Morality and putting progressive enhancement on the map

With iOS 9 launching this week, bringing native content blockers to Safari and native app web views, design and development communities have been trying to understand the implications on their work.

It’s also given even more precedence to progressive enhancement, a strategy for ensuring websites are both usable and accessible on every device and connection speed, by serving up appropriate content (e.g. non-retina images to non-retina devices) and safe fallbacks when functionality isn’t available (e.g. web-safe fonts).

A great collection by Zach Kahn covering the main content blockers currently available for iOS 9

To help better understand the ongoing discussion around content blockers, this Medium post will bring together a range of collective thoughts from those around the web currently entering this brave new world.

This post will continually be updated as I see more interesting and relevant thoughts. Please send me anything you’ve found interesting on Twitter @chrishutchinson.