Apple Inc.

Brian Weinstein

Samuel M Weinig

Richard J Mondello

Adele C Peterson

Jessie Berlin

Benjamin Poulain

Alex Christensen

Darin Benjamin Adler

Steven J Falkenburg

Kevin W Decker

Maciej Stachowiak

Donald Dale Melton

Jing Jin

Timothy G Hatcher

Brian Croll

In various embodiments described herein, a content extension and programming interface enable third-party content extensions to supply transformation and filtering actions and associated criteria to native web clients on a system. In one embodiment, the native web client loads data for a third-party content filtering, blocking, or transformation extension and conducts extension defined actions without requiring additional intermediation by the third-party content. In one embodiment, a third-party application downloaded to a mobile or handheld device can include an extension data object that provides actions and triggers that are loaded by a native web client of the system. The third-party application is not required to execute continuously and can exit or be terminated once the web client retrieves the extension data object.

Web resource load blocking API

Methods and apparatuses that maintain one or more data stores capable of storing local data in a device for loading a resource of a domain are described. The resource may be loaded to cause one or more data access operations on the data stores. Access to usage tracking data of the device from the domain may depend on at least one of the data access operations. The data access operations may be configured to block the usage tracking data of the device from the domain. The data access operations may be performed on the data stores for the loading of the resource. A web page may be presented to a user when the resource is successfully loaded.

Methods and apparatus for blocking usage tracking

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Brian Weinstein