{"id":153666,"date":"2016-02-01T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T07:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=153666"},"modified":"2016-02-01T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T07:47:41","slug":"samsungs-android-browser-gets-ad-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/153666-samsungs-android-browser-gets-ad-blocking.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s Android browser gets ad blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has added support for content and ad blocking\u00a0plugins to its Android web browser found on the company&#8217;s smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The browser update will be pushed to Samsung phones with\u00a0Android Lollipop (5.0) and up, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/31\/10880394\/samsung-internet-android-ad-content-blocker-adblock-fast\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/strong>, and will let users install apps that block ads from the websites they visit.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Samsung follows a similar play by Apple, whose iOS9 operating system <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/136522-the-death-of-online-advertising.html\" target=\"_blank\">supports ad blocking<\/a><\/strong> by its Safari browser.<\/p>\n<p>Companies which rely on advertising, like media heavyweight\u00a0Axel Springer, have voiced objections to ad blocking &#8211; and in some cases <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/147209-axel-springer-sues-ad-blocking-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">instituted legal action<\/a><\/strong> against ad blocking services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ad blockers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/153113-ad-blocking-is-a-war-against-freedom-of-expression.html\">Ad blocking is a war against freedom of expression<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152801-new-browser-which-blocks-all-the-greed-and-ugliness.html\">New browser which \u201cblocks all the greed and ugliness\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has added support for content and ad blocking plugins to its Android web browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,34139,397,645],"class_list":["post-153666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-ad-blocking","tag-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153670,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666\/revisions\/153670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}