French publishers try again to get Apple to drop Distraction Control

A consortium of publishers and ad companies in France have written to Tim Cook to ask him to ditch Distraction Control, undaunted by how he ignored them last time.Distraction Control lets users wipe away website elements they don't want to seeIt was in May 2024 when members of French organizations including Alliance Digitale, and press organization Alliance de la Presse d'Information Generale, read AppleInsider and went wide-eyed. For AppleInsider had exclusively revealed Apple's Web Eraser, which would later be renamed on release as Distraction Control.At the time, Web Eraser was expected to let Safari users remove any part of a website from view, and naturally target number one would be ads. So the consortium wrote to Tim Cook, asking that Apple abandon it. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums