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I haven't seen any ads on the forum with Adblock Fast or Silentium. However, I did file a report with Silentium, in regards to intermittently seeing sponsored Yahoo ads on the iPhone 6 and iPad Air. One time they appear to be all blocked, and the new time they may show on the iPad and not the iPhone etc.
 
I see no reason to pay for an ad blocker. We have AdBlocker (MoboTap) and Adblock Fast. I'm testing the latter and It seems great. I just don't understand how can they block ads with only 7 rules (compared to 50k to other ad blockers).
 
I see no reason to pay for an ad blocker. We have AdBlocker (MoboTap) and Adblock Fast. I'm testing the latter and It seems great. I just don't understand how can they block ads with only 7 rules (compared to 50k to other ad blockers).
It looks like only the extension for desktop browsers has 7 rules, which are basically mile-long regular expressions.
iOS version, however, has a 9 megabyte JSON with 45899 rules.
 
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I just tried compiling AdBlock Fast for my iPhone 5, and Xcode gave me the following message: "Your iPhone doesn't support any of adblockfast.app's architectures. You can add your iPhone's armv7s architecture to adblockfast.app's Architectures build setting". Might someone know how to do that (if it's indeed possible to get it to work)?
 
Got a question. I read that some of you use several blockers together. I have a special webpage which all but adblocker fast are showing some leftovers of ads. When I use adblocker fast only its fine , when I use it together with purify o silencium they show again.
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Two blockers

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Only adblocker fast

I even tried to set a rule within safari blocker but didn’t help

Page is: www.cuidad.com.ar
 
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Got a question. I read that some of you use several blockers together. I have a special webpage which all but adblocker fast are showing some leftovers of ads. When I use adblocker fast only its fine , when I use it together with purify o silencium they show again.
c30864592a6af80ece3b0c69cb74ccb2.jpg


Two blockers

09e5a7a4778f48225d3754a9a7dd8f85.jpg


Only adblocker fast

I even tried to set a rule within safari blocker but didn’t help

Page is: www.cuidad.com.ar
That site presents a screen asking for my country and language. Upon making my choice I am taken to a login screen (I don't have an account there). I'm using Purify, Blocker, and Safari Blocker.. I see no ads anywhere on that website.
 
Got a question. I read that some of you use several blockers together. I have a special webpage which all but adblocker fast are showing some leftovers of ads. When I use adblocker fast only its fine , when I use it together with purify o silencium they show again.
c30864592a6af80ece3b0c69cb74ccb2.jpg


Two blockers

09e5a7a4778f48225d3754a9a7dd8f85.jpg


Only adblocker fast

I even tried to set a rule within safari blocker but didn’t help

Page is: www.cuidad.com.ar

It’s possible that Safari stops executing block rules if it is overburdened with too many. I remember reading something about this. Either that or one of these blockers is whitelisting certain advertisers/trackers. I think Safari will always give preference to those.
 
It looks like only the extension for desktop browsers has 7 rules, which are basically mile-long regular expressions.
iOS version, however, has a 9 megabyte JSON with 45899 rules.
Yeah. After a little more research I'm less impressed. The 7 giant regular expressions used in the desktop version seem to have been taken from the Bluhell adblocker extension for Firefox. They were probably compiled from a set of conventional rules using Regexp:Assemble. So, nothing magic going on here (although Regexp:Assemble is quite brilliant and can produce highly optimized regexps). The iOS ruleset seems to be mostly a customized Easylist, but I haven't checked in detail. But if it works it works, and open source is always good for an app like this ...
 
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