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The Jay and Farhad Show - Ad Blocking in Apple's iOS 9

Entertainment — Business Insider Executive Director Jay Yarow and NYT Tech …
Entertainmentest. 2015
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 16 probesavg response 1903 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
feeds.soundcloud.com
edge
direct origin
server
am/2
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Jay and Farhad Show - Ad Blocking in Apple's iOS 9's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it inactive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
This Is My Funeral Jamentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Plant Trainers Podcast - How To Have A Healthier Vegan Dietentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Diversity in Tech — The Digital Life Podcast 181entertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Art of Manliness Podcast #196: The Science of Self Motivation & Productivityentertainmentsimilar100%48.90.0● live
Dudes of Disruption - Episode 45: Don't Judge The Book: What Is Beauty?entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Overthinkingit Podcast - To boldly go, and so forthentertainmentsimilar100%44.70.0● live
Coruscant Pulse #55- Rogue One Details and Episode VIII Leiaentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
iam want to know this song iam egyptionentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tiersunset
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:36Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/27080dead_404
2026-08-19 13:51Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21341dead_404
2026-08-11 00:27Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/2845dead_404
2026-08-08 06:18Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21316dead_404
2026-08-05 18:39Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21189dead_404
2026-07-30 17:53Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21081dead_404
2026-07-22 09:43Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/22289dead_404
2026-07-17 09:26Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/22338dead_404
2026-07-10 10:48Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21928dead_404
2026-07-04 09:39Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21882dead_404
2026-06-23 13:55Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21375dead_404
2026-06-21 10:48Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21561dead_404
2026-06-20 00:39Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21238dead_404
2026-06-18 22:55Z404podtrac.com → feeds.soundcloud.comam/21183dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Jay and Farhad Show - Ad Blocking in Apple's iOS 9 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-jay-and-farhad-show-ad-blocking-in-apple-s-ios-9 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.