I find it weird that an app like Crystal doesn't have whitelist support. I still am not comfortable giving someone money for an ad-blocker app either. I got Crystal while it was free, though - but it's annoying that something as basic - and minimally ethical? - as a whitelist was not included at launch.<p>I'd hoped to install an ad-blocker on my mom's iPad 3G, but apparently ad-blockers aren't supported by it for some reason.<p>Ad-blocking feels a lot like the piracy discussion. I like to think of it in terms of "honest downloading" vs "dishonest downloading". Sometimes, people just come up with excuses posing as arguments to cover for their laziness and selfishness - but there are also perfectly valid arguments to be made. But those arguments may not have anything to do with some people's actual motivation.<p>Thoughts? Experiences? Practical as well as ethical. I have a pretty good idea of how the general opinion will sway, but it'd be interesting to see some people think out loud about it - especially when they don't have an ... unfortunate ... conflict of interest like a Marco Arment.<p>Will you be installing ad-blockers on your folks' devices, when you visit them for Thanksgiving? Why?
I was looking forward to it actually, but very disappointed that it's not supported on my iPhone or iPad. Update: just installed BlockParty on both via XCode and very pleased.<p><a href="https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty</a>