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The iOS 9 Content Blocker thread

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deeznuts

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BasicGreatGuy said:
It has been my experience, that Purify blocks sponsored ads on my iPhone 6, but doesn't block them on the iPad Air. Silentium is the same way. For some reason, people can have different results with iOS 9 on different devices.
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Well maybe results vary between different devices.
 
scjr

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Sponsored ads on Yahoo show on my iPad Air 2 when running Purify, but it blocks them on my 6+.

It's the other way around for Silentium. I have no idea why this is, but I reported it to the Silentium devs with screenshots. They both block sponsored ads.
 
Alex Crane

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hank moody said:
PURIFY - the best
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Thanks!

BasicGreatGuy said:
I don't read Russian. I tested just now with Purtify and didn't see any ads.

Did it ever occur to you, to report the website to the developers you listed, so that the site can be corrected, instead of tossing apps aside, just because they fail to load one site correctly? That kind of thinking doesn't make sense, in my opinion.
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Thanks. I report to Crystal at day zero and still zero effect. Just searching blocker with best russian region support.

abdulkar.im said:
Didn't see any ads with Silentium
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Thanks.

rijc99 said:
No ads with Silentium.
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Thanks.

pcfacts said:
No ads at all using the free "Safari Blocker".
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Thanks.


scjr said:
Can confirm the same.
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Thanks.

Rigby said:
No ads with Blockr ... but no ads when I reload without any blocker either. Possibly they don't serve ads to users outside Russia, so I wouldn't rely too much on other people's reports (including mine ;)).
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Thanks! That is good point. I think the same.

ardchoille50 said:
Same here, Safari Blocker seems to block those ads.
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Thanks.


I decided to jump to Purify as it recommended at uBlock.org. uBlock is amaizing. Will test and reply.
 
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tok

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Ladybug

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BasicGreatGuy said:
Amazing to me, how I get ignored on Twitter as he replies to other people.
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I can't imagine why the developer would be ignoring you either. You have been more than fair in all of your reviews. Perhaps a name change to BasicGreatGirl might be in order lol. Kidding of course. The only thing comes to mind is perhaps he doesnt want to be reviewed right now but he could at least tell you that much. Hang in there.
 
Alex Crane

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Mactaculious said:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
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Thanks for advice, will take a look.

gaanee said:
Could you please include "www.timesofindia.com" and "www.indianexpress.com"?
Thanks for posting app reviews, it's quite helpful in narrowing down from many available content blockers.
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It is not enough to go to website. To test it right user must have indian IP either.

As for me, none of blockers including Purify doesn't handle russian websites correctly for now :(
 
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Can you share some more info on how to use CSS and what are its benefits on top of just using content blocker?

macduke said:
1Blocker has been working great for me. It even has a feature to remove the empty blocks that are left behind where ads should go. Since I'm also web developer I came up with some CSS for a few sites to clean them up.

9toMac's ads and general site are annoying so I came up with the CSS class and ID list if you guys want to use it:

.news-feed-header,.trending-wrapper,.slick-slide,.jp-relatedposts,.sharedaddy

Make sure you apply it to domains only. Works for 9toMac.com, 9to5Toys.com, and 9to5Google.com. I'll probably make more for other sites later. I like the idea of customizing sites. Are there any blockers that let you inject custom CSS for certain URL's? I'd like to set fonts and sizes for my favorite sites, colors, etc.
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Alex Crane

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Alex Crane said:
As for me, none of blockers including Purify doesn't handle russian websites correctly for now :(
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Silentium also failed my test with http://m.fishki.net. No one blocker can handle russian ads for now, including premium ones :(

Added: wait a minute!!! I've restarted Safari and ads are gone with Purify. Silentium still shows ads :)

Purify FTW :) lol
 
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macduke

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gaanee said:
Can you share some more info on how to use CSS and what are its benefits on top of just using content blocker?
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I installed an app that lets me view the source of a website on an iOS device using the share sheets. Although it may be easier on the desktop by using the web inspector. You find the class (.) or id (#) of the html elements you want to hide and put it into 1Blocker with commas between each item.

As for the benefit, at least in the blockers I've tried they often leave "holes" in the page where ads should be after they are removed. Furthermore 9to5 has a lot of inline promo content from their sister sites that I don't care much to see. They also have a stock price bar and social sharing icons that I wanted to remove. So I grabbed all of the names of those html elements and put them on the block list. So ad containers collapse. I've been doing this for sites I frequent that I want to also block ads on. It makes for a cleaner browsing experience.
 
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Which app did you use to view the source and how to identify specific html elements to hide (google analytics and similar things)?

macduke said:
I installed an app that lets me view the source of a website on an iOS device using the share sheets. Although it may be easier on the desktop by using the web inspector. You find the class (.) or id (#) of the html elements you want to hide and put it into 1Blocker with commas between each item.

As for the benefit, at least in the blockers I've tried they often leave "holes" in the page where ads should be after they are removed. Furthermore 9to5 has a lot of inline promo content from their sister sites that I don't care much to see. They also have a stock price bar and social sharing icons that I wanted to remove. So I grabbed all of the names of those html elements and put them on the block list. So ad containers collapse. I've been doing this for sites I frequent that I want to also block ads on. It makes for a cleaner browsing experience.
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