{"id":22349,"date":"2018-08-02T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22349"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:42:33","slug":"adguard-pro-discontinued-due-to-apples-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/adguard-pro-discontinued-due-to-apples-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"AdGuard Pro Discontinued Due to Apple&rsquo;s Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/adguard.com\/en\/blog\/adguard-pro-discontinued\/\">Andrey Meshkov<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17667398\">Hacker News<\/a>):\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/adguard.com\/en\/blog\/adguard-pro-discontinued\/\"><p>Basically, this guideline makes it impossible to use the VPN API for any purpose different from establishing a real VPN connection. I can name A LOT of cool apps which can be affected by this change and can be taken down any time: Charles Proxy, DNSCloak, etc, etc. I hope they won&rsquo;t, though, and the whole point of this is to get rid of known ad blockers.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We are not alone. It seems that Apple decided to ban all apps that do content blocking outside of Safari. Malwarebytes is another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasareed\/status\/1021037921795788801\">example<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Meshkov (via Hacker News): Basically, this guideline makes it impossible to use the VPN API for any purpose different from establishing a real VPN connection. I can name A LOT of cool apps which can be affected by this change and can be taken down any time: Charles Proxy, DNSCloak, etc, etc. I hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-02T18:42:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"6f843b2e-0dd5-47e3-953a-4c87a4171d48","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-02T18:42:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ab4Q7Lg3VR-OVOkyHpBcdSA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1716,354,91,130,31,1472,26,1132],"class_list":["post-22349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-adguard-pro","tag-advertising","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp","tag-virtual-private-network-vpn"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22350,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions\/22350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}