I've switched to Adguard after comparing it for a few months among 1Blocker, Purify, Magic, and Focus. It gives the best compromise between speed and customizations. Don't go overboard with activating all filters and it becomes the fastest out there. I have the the first two (English, Spyware) active, along with Safari one and a language-specific one active.
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Tripadvisor is a great website but the mobile version has become very irritating - every time you want to read a review you get an obtrusive popup advertising their app.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g652120-d643156-Reviews-Hotel_Termas-Archena.html
It's very annoying, is there any way to stop it with one of these content blockers?
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g652120-d643156-Reviews-Hotel_Termas-Archena.html
It's very annoying, is there any way to stop it with one of these content blockers?
Depends on what kind of pop-up you mean. I notice the content blockers stop instances where going to a website and clicking on a link bumps you out of Safari and into the App Store to advertise an app and generally most pop-ups are blocked as well.
If you are talking about the banner at the top advertising an app, it doesn't stop those. I suggest downloading one for yourself and checking to see if it does what you want. There are many good free ones out there so cost of entry is almost non-existent (just a bit of time and bandwidth).
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I was learning about user-created filters and stumbled upon this page:
https://adguard.com/en/filterrules.html
I had no idea Adguard was so powerful!
Thanks for that
I was learning about user-created filters and stumbled upon this page:
https://adguard.com/en/filterrules.html
I had no idea Adguard was so powerful!
Thanks for that
@avatar-adg Is this something that can be blocked? It's not the banner at the top of the page, but rather the pop-up that occurs whenever tapping on a review from within that website.
Have you tried Magic? I am not seeing the pop up when clicking on a review.
Is it an ad or something from the website itself that prompts to use their app or something like that?
I have, and I still see it even with Magic enabled.
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It's a pop-up that prompts to use the website's app, which technically is advertising, not to mention obtrusive.
Sounds like it's simply part of their site code and not an ad from an ad network or something like that. It's a prompt that people might not care for of course, but it's basically part of the site itself so I would imagine it would be hard to filter that as that means looking at the site code itself and trying to figure out what an end user would want or not, and that's not really a call an ad filter could or at least probably should be making.
Strangely I don't see the pop up even without an adblocker on iPhone and iPad.
Has development of Crystal ceased?
It hasn't been updated in forever (except for an occasional definition update), as the in-development whitelist feature has never appeared.
It hasn't been updated in forever (except for an occasional definition update), as the in-development whitelist feature has never appeared.
i suppose it could be worse ... amazon for example kicks me right out of safari into the amazon app. so annoying but yea i get what you mean
Good question. No updates in ages and tweets the developer don't get answered. That said there seem to be updates to the blocklist and it still works pretty well for me. I'd switch but I've not yet found a blocker that quite ticks the boxes.
I was learning about user-created filters and stumbled upon this page:
https://adguard.com/en/filterrules.html
I had no idea Adguard was so powerful!
Thanks for that
One important notice about this article.
It is a bit outdated (some new filter types are missing) and it is not clear from that article which filter types are supported by our products. We'll update it later this month.
Meanwhile here is a short description.
AG for iOS:
Supports Basic rules
Supports Element Hiding rules
AG for Safari OS X (Browser extension):
Additionally:
Supports CSS injection rules
Supports JS rules
AG for OS X (Desktop app):
Additionally:
Supports HTML filtering rules
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Yep, it's possible.
Until we've introduced our own "Annoyances" filter, we add filters for such site elements to the "Experimental filter":
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/ExperimentalFilter/issues/1438
"pretty good" seems to be some ways off from "hands down the best". There are a few really good ones it seems, what makes this one better?
I mean it pretty fast. Blocks ads, sponsored ads on almost all site & it doesn't break any sites that I've been on.
Ive been beta testing Admop for awhile now and i really like the development being done. I wouldn't say its the fastest but its the most customizable, you can load the webpage with the ads and select individual elements to block if they are not already. It also no longer breaks the sites that it used to and if it does you can simply whitelist it and add your own rules.
I'm guessing Magic has already been abandoned? No blocker update in nearly a month. Updates used to happen every other day or so.
I've already switched to Adguard. I really like it, I'm just overwhelmed with the amount of choices. What filters would people recommend to achieve a nice balance between speed and effective blocking? Right now I'm running the English filter, spyware, experimental, mobile ads, Safari, and anti-Adblock killer filters. I used to run the malware domains filter but I noticed that one filter alone nearly doubled the number of filter rules. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm using an iPhone 6s and an iPad Pro fwiw.
I've already switched to Adguard. I really like it, I'm just overwhelmed with the amount of choices. What filters would people recommend to achieve a nice balance between speed and effective blocking? Right now I'm running the English filter, spyware, experimental, mobile ads, Safari, and anti-Adblock killer filters. I used to run the malware domains filter but I noticed that one filter alone nearly doubled the number of filter rules. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm using an iPhone 6s and an iPad Pro fwiw.
Some of this comes up at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rs-mini-reviews.1918483/page-21#post-22526159 which might be of some help.
I think some reports I sent to Magic were handled recently but it's hard to be sure. Now, since we've seen no app or list updates in a month, how's that possible... Hmm.
If this is the long term state of the game where we need to change blockers every two months, I don't know what to say.
If this is the long term state of the game where we need to change blockers every two months, I don't know what to say.