Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 18 September 2015
One of the most important aspects of the iOS 9 launch was that ad blocking software is now allowed on the App Store. Ad blocking apps rocketed to the top of the store's rankings, led by Marco Arment's Peace. A day afterward, Arment talked about the cognitive dissonance he felt from having his software blocking the (admittedly well-behaving) ads on his own website. Now, Arment has pulled Peace from the App Store, saying its success "just doesn't feel good."
He pulls the app two days after he released the finished product? At the moment it went public his moral compass pointed into another direction? That explanation is really hard to buy (no conspirancy theory intended).