TechCrunch reports that earlier this week, Samsung debuted support for ad blocking
in the new version of its web browser for mobile devices, the Samsung
Internet Browser. It reports: "Third-party developers quickly responded by launching ad-blocking mobile apps that work with the browser. Now those developers are finding their apps are being
pulled from the Google Play, and their updates are being declined. The reason? It seems Google doesn’t want ad blockers to be distributed as standalone applications on its Google Play store."
Also, a few days ago, Samsung introduced ad blocking within its mobile web browser. The feature works similarly to Apple's support for ad blocking in Safari.
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