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yeah, thank you! great feedback! We care about our users and we consider every feedback we receive
Let me know if you found some bugs/have any questions!
Just downloaded Silentium and finding it great.
However it seems to not want to play nice with idownloadblog
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It blocks sponsored ads.
Regarding sponsored ads I wonder if this is a grey area. I understand that some people want to block all ads including sponsored. Fine.
Personally I think if a company is prepared to put some money behind a site as a sponsor (and by this I hope quite user friendly placement) does then that is the price of admission for using that site and getting 'free' content.
So to Silentium and other devs here. Is it technically feasible/easy to have this kind of granularity? Toggling in to sponsor ads but toggling out of more generic material?
it should be technically feasible - we only need to know which are the sponsor ads and which are not - probably it's practically infeasible, so we decided to implement a whitelist
You whitelist a website and you display ads on it 
it should be technically feasible - we only need to know which are the sponsor ads and which are not - probably it's practically infeasible, so we decided to implement a whitelist
Expanding on the whitelist option, you can allow a combination of ads, scripts or images per white listed site. That's great customization right there!
Testing Silentium 1.1 beta now too and feels fast. The regular sites I go to works fine. The blocking feels fast and I don't get the page loading icon showing for a while like with a few others I've tried.
I've just gone on Google News and clicked on random links and all have been fine. The responsiveness of zerbfra is awesome. Thanks for letting me test. I'll keep using it through out the day and see if anything else pops up.
I've just gone on Google News and clicked on random links and all have been fine. The responsiveness of zerbfra is awesome. Thanks for letting me test. I'll keep using it through out the day and see if anything else pops up.
Thank you! The inclusion of whitelist capability is one of the quickest ways to get me to keep and promote a content blocker. There are some websites that use common sense when displaying adverts and I will happily whitelist a site that seems to care about their visitors.it should be technically feasible - we only need to know which are the sponsor ads and which are not - probably it's practically infeasible, so we decided to implement a whitelist
it should be technically feasible - we only need to know which are the sponsor ads and which are not - probably it's practically infeasible, so we decided to implement a whitelist
Yeah a simple whitelist makes much more sense from an implementation perspective. It does make the user do more work to whitelist on a per site basis and I suspect that well intentioned users would be too lazy to do this consistently but 'fixing' this does place too much of a burden on developers
I had 6 app updates suddenly appear in iTunes, all with exact same versions as I had before:Sorry guys, the same is happening with other apps. We think App Store is drunk at the moment
1.1 will be released next week, we are only waiting for apple approval
1Password, Monument Valley, Shadowmatic, Crystal, Vivio and AdFence.
I don't want to start any conspiracy theories, but it might have something to do with XcodeGhost cleanup.
The timing is certainly suspect. And all affected apps were compiled with 9.0 SDK. And all Info.plist files are identical before and after the update.
I'm not saying that these apps were infected, but that Apple's eradication effort probably triggered recompilation of bitcode apps.
The Silentium review has been posted.
Congratulations, Silentium, on a job well done.
Congratulations, Silentium, on a job well done.
I'm not a developer so forgive me if I'm wrong here. But, the more rules we run in content blockers, the higher chance there is of Safari running out of memory. If this assumption correct?