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Yeah, I'm not seeing Purify in the app store, or any content blockers for that matter. Not yet, anyways.

Apple is most likely slowly rolling them out until the server traffic gets better. People were getting "upgrade failed" messages when trying to upgrade to 9.
 
Apple is most likely slowly rolling them up until the server traffic gets better. People were getting "upgrade failed" messages when trying to upgrade to 9.

Mine is not yet reviewed in iTunes Connect, and I know I'm not alone.

I've been trying Crystal, which is out now, and it's very good.
 
Got Crystal all set up. Holy crap does it work!

Before you enable it, go to a TechCrunch article, let it load, exit out, enable Crystal, then go back to Safari and refresh the article.
 
How do these blockers work? Are they like desktop blockers such as AdBlock Plus/uBlock Origin, or are they like the old ad blockers for iOS8 and older, where they tunneled all your data through some proxy?
 
I am currently using Crystal. And boy, does it make a difference! Tested it with iMore, since I knew it always takes a lot of time to load. With the adblocker enabled, that website literally flies in Safari. It's incredible! You don't know half how much I love Apple for having iOS 9 support 'content blockers'. Of course they knew most of these content blockers were going to be adblockers.

And I think it's good that they've done this. Not entirely to mock website owners because of all their ads. But also so they will realize that the current ad model just doesn't work. Especially with sites like iMore. It's just ridiculuous how slow it loads with all those ads. They're going to have their game changed if they want to prevent people from using adblockers.
 
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How do these blockers work? Are they like desktop blockers such as AdBlock Plus/uBlock Origin, or are they like the old ad blockers for iOS8 and older, where they tunneled all your data through some proxy?

Former. They are actually even better than browser extensions, because those use JavaScript calls whereas iOS content blocking is done with bytecode and Safari is doing the blocking itself. All these apps are doing is sending a blocklist to Safari, which they can update from time to time.
 
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is crystal the only one available right now? I tried it and works wonderfully. Is purify available for anyone yet?
 
Can anyone give me a webpage with tons of ads? I want to try how this blocking thing works.
 
crystal not working on my iPhone 6. I'm on 9.1 in case that makes a difference. the other ones work perfectly via TestFlight
 
Anyone know off hand of a site with some of those horrific center layer adds with the tiniest x in the corner?
 
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