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iOS 9 Content Blockers Mini-Reviews
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@Orka, confirmed, filters update fixing it will be available in an hour or so.
I have a problem too.
I'm using the Adguard content blocker on my iPad and iPhone and when going to the Daily Mail website, I get to see a huge banner at the top of the page. These are the filters that are active:
* English filter
* Spyware filter
* Social media filter
* Dutch filter
* Filter for mobile ads
* Safari filter
* Adblock Warning Removal List
* Malware Domains
* Prebake
* Spam 404
* Anti-Adblock Killer Reek
On another site, the videos won't load. Also both on the iPad and iPhone: here.
On my Mac with the same filters enabled (Adguard extension), I don't get to see the banner and the videos are playing perfectly.
What can be the cause?
I'm using the Adguard content blocker on my iPad and iPhone and when going to the Daily Mail website, I get to see a huge banner at the top of the page. These are the filters that are active:
* English filter
* Spyware filter
* Social media filter
* Dutch filter
* Filter for mobile ads
* Safari filter
* Adblock Warning Removal List
* Malware Domains
* Prebake
* Spam 404
* Anti-Adblock Killer Reek
On another site, the videos won't load. Also both on the iPad and iPhone: here.
On my Mac with the same filters enabled (Adguard extension), I don't get to see the banner and the videos are playing perfectly.
What can be the cause?
The difference is that they use Flash on Mac. I've just checked it on ipad and video from some random news plays good. I guess the problem is with live video only?
Do you mean the "Get the MailOnline App" banner?
You can't use Flash on iOS. It's just why the website behaves differently on iOS and Mac, I am not suggesting to use flash
.We don't yet have an "annoyances" filter so all such filters are stored in the "Experimental" filter. Turn it on and that banner is gone (however the empty place is still there, no easy way to remove it).
[doublepost=1462451791][/doublepost]@Tomovich btw, if you're on beta version, you can try to block it manually.
Tap on Adguard icon in Safari, choose "Block element on a web page", wait a sec then tap on the banner and click on "AG" icon to block it.
Thanks!
By the way, on this page
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Watc...-momentum-Customers-love-our-products_id80726
there is embedded CNBC video (Tim Cook interview) which I can't watch unless I disable AG.
avatar-adg, I only see now that the link to the sporza site I linked to doesn't work. The video I got to see was some sort of Facebook video that looked like an image on my iOS devices. I don't think it was live video.
Any idea when the experimental filter will be "finished"?
Any idea when the experimental filter will be "finished"?
I hope that it will be ready before the next major release (so it will be this month).
Thank you! Confirmed, will be fixed today:
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/ExperimentalFilter/issues/2108
I have a problem with updating the filters in adguard. When I check for filter updates it gives an error message saying that I should clean user defined rules and whitelist, but both have always been empty.
It also suggests to change filters.
What's the problem? Using newest regular iOS version on iPhone se.
It also suggests to change filters.
What's the problem? Using newest regular iOS version on iPhone se.
This happened to me also. I exited the app, swiped it to remove it from the multitask list, then reopened the app and it worked fine.
Try this:
1. Exit the app
2. Remove the app from the multitasking list
3. Press and Ho ld the power button until the Power Off dialog appears
4. While in that dialog, press and hold the home button until that power off dialog disappears
5. Reopen the app and see if the error message is gone
This works for me every time an app misbehaves
Trying out the new Opera VPN for iOS and so far seems to work well.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/opera-vpn-free-unlimited-ad/id1080756781?mt=8
Only issue is the small delay in the VPN coming back on after turning the screen on but it's a small price to pay for less adverts across the board (twitter, apple news, safari etc)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/opera-vpn-free-unlimited-ad/id1080756781?mt=8
Only issue is the small delay in the VPN coming back on after turning the screen on but it's a small price to pay for less adverts across the board (twitter, apple news, safari etc)
Which filters do you use?
[doublepost=1462816875][/doublepost]@cola79
Two possibilities:
1. You hit 50k rules limit
2. App cannot convert one of the ad filters (that's why I need to know which filters do you use).
I'm very late to the party, had iOS for quite some time and just got interested in content blockers today; right off the bat i got ABP AdBlock Plus and Opera VPN that was just announced today; using Opera just for content blockers is overkill. They both did a meh job.
Just got Adguard that some people recommended in another thread and it does a better job than the other 2. Haven't used it for more than the 3 sites i used most so far but it does the job perfectly. People also recommended 1Blocker a lot too.
Purify and Crystal are on my scope due to a lot of people recommending it and this thread. Just FYI Purify is now $1.99 and Crystal is now at $0.99.
There was another thread that people posted benchmarks. Would love to see these 4, the 2 free and the 2 paid for ones go head to head in performance. Aka how fast they run and battery drain over a set of websites.
If anyone has that data to share would definitely appreciate it. Or if anyone willing to try to benchmark the latest versions.
Just got Adguard that some people recommended in another thread and it does a better job than the other 2. Haven't used it for more than the 3 sites i used most so far but it does the job perfectly. People also recommended 1Blocker a lot too.
Purify and Crystal are on my scope due to a lot of people recommending it and this thread. Just FYI Purify is now $1.99 and Crystal is now at $0.99.
There was another thread that people posted benchmarks. Would love to see these 4, the 2 free and the 2 paid for ones go head to head in performance. Aka how fast they run and battery drain over a set of websites.
If anyone has that data to share would definitely appreciate it. Or if anyone willing to try to benchmark the latest versions.
I use
English, spyware , social, german, mobile, Safari, easylist, easy Germany, easy privacy, fanboy annoyance, fanboy social, Adblock wrl, malware domains, prebake.
14 out of 59.
Open Adguard and go to Filters. Look at the bottom of that screen where it says "Filters enabled". Look under that where it says "Active filter rules". What is the count there?
It appears this issue is caused by social media filter, once I switch it off back gesture works fine.