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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14013996

> Surprisingly, the company is seeing little change in the cost of impressions or the visibility of its ads on the internet, she said.

If/when other companies switch to this strategy, they’ll all be competing for less inventory and cost will go up accordingly.

No mention of Idiocracy?! This movie predicted our fate: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Edit: I read the IMDb blurb – ”… five centuries in the future …”. I guess we’re 500 years ahead of schedule.

I think whether or not we do an Android port will depend on how this release fairs (since this post, we have gotten traction from Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/image-search-keyboard). We targeted iOS because we’re working on a framework for rapidly developing custom iOS keyboards (which we describe some more in our launch blog post: https://log.rocketshipapps.com/image-search-keyboard-5a6b37a...).

Our image results aren’t instant (you have to hit a search button first), but this is a good idea for a future iteration.

Thank you. We mostly make apps for other companies, but a lot of our own apps are linked (directly or indirectly) from our homepage (http://rocketshipapps.com/):

1. https://itunes.apple.com/app/adblock-fast/id1032930802

2. https://itunes.apple.com/app/image-search-keyboard/id1100440...

3. https://itunes.apple.com/app/disconnect-kids/id671080655

4. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rocketship...

5. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.disconnect....

6. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-fast/nneej...

7. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/top/mhpnaakfhiogke...

8. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect/jeoacaf...

9. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-disconnec...

10. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/g-disconnect/kglfo...

11. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-disconnect...

12. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/collusion-for-chro... [Dead]

13. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect-search/...

14. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frictionless/ajing... [Dead]

15. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/like+1/lpehokhlnom... [Dead]

16. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-wave-notifi... [Dead]

17. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disconnect/

18. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fbdc/

19. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gdc/

20. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twdc/

21. https://disconnect.me/disconnect.safariextz

22. https://disconnect.me/fbdc.safariextz

23. https://disconnect.me/gdc.safariextz

24. https://disconnect.me/twdc.safariextz

25. https://disconnect.me/collusion.safariextz

26. https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/adblock-fast/

27. https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/disconnect/

I came here to make this comment. I found that quote offensive, as both a founder (I’ve started two companies) and angel investor (I “started” zero of these companies!). According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lacob), Joe Lacob has never started a company.

We just (last week) launched an Android ad blocker with Samsung that doesn’t require rooting your device or switching to another browser (our app works with Samsung Internet, which is the default browser on most of their devices): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rocketship...

The ad blocker is also open source: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

> In any case, it's just impossible for me to figure what is the issue. I could spend a inordinate amount of time guess-shuffling code around for no result.

I’d caution against the shuffling code around to try to reverse engineer the approval rules. I tried the same with a similar extension (Adblock Fast) that got rejected for similar reasons (no reasons as far as I could tell). Result: my dev account got automatically suspended. I had to get a Google friend to get me unsuspended. Google seems to have added very aggressive automated approval and suspension rules. I’d reply to their email and see if they reply back first.

https://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137)