Following up on the previous item today, re: content blockers and ad-blocking, I ran into a weird situation a few weeks ago with my column “John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope”. That article contains this sentence, in Markdown:
And -- at this writing, still "coming soon" -- Apple is
launching [ads on Apple Maps][🗺️].
[🗺️]: https://ads.apple.com/maps
The problem is that anyone reading that article in NetNewsWire saw it rendered like this, with the words “ads on Apple Maps”1 omitted:
