The iOS 9 Content Blocker thread

[Apple_Robert]

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.

 

[miknos]

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).

 

[blackboxxx]

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.

 

[tok]

I just don't understand how can they block ads with only 7 rules (compared to 50k to other ad blockers).

Well, I took a look at their
open source blocker list. It contains roughly 46k rules. I suspect their 7 rules claim applies to their Chrome plugin maybe?
...

 

[Lara F]

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)?

 

[tosbsas]

Purify seems to improve support. just got a nice email and several tweets. Miracle

 

[tosbsas]

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.

Two blockers

Only adblocker fast

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

Page is: www.cuidad.com.ar

 

[hank moody]

I don't know what kind of voodoo adblockfast's devs did, but it is awesome. Love this app

 

[ardchoille50]

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.

Two blockers

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.

 

[KALLT]

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.

Two blockers

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.

 

[tosbsas]

Sorry typo
http://m.ciudad.com.ar/

I see that e-planning.net ad

 

[Apple_Robert]

The review for Clear Ad Blocker has been posted.

 

[tosbsas]

Found a solution to have both. Adblocker fast and safari blocker - adblocking turned off

 

[drea97]

I am using adamant it's really get the job done.

 

[tosbsas]

Any of those blockers has a blacklist feature?

 

[Rigby]

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 ...

 

[hank moody]

The thing is: no other app works this good.. So they are doing something different.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Any of those blockers has a blacklist feature?

You mean being able to create your own rules on the fly in the app?

 

[scjr]

The thing is: no other app works this good

Until the greatest ad blocker in the history of the world, Purify, releases their update next week!

 

[tops2]

Sorry typo
http://m.ciudad.com.ar/

I see that e-planning.net ad

With Silentium 1.1 beta, I see a blank spot where the ad may go, but I don't see any actual ads.

 

[hank moody]

Until the greatest ad blocker in the history of the world, Purify, releases their update next week!

Maybe i am curious

 

[scjr]

With Silentium 1.1 beta, I see a blank spot where the ad may go, but I don't see any actual ads.

Same here.

 

[Nolander07]

Sorry typo
http://m.ciudad.com.ar/

I see that e-planning.net ad

With Crystal enabled I don't have ads on that site.

 

[ardchoille50]

Any of those blockers has a blacklist feature?

Safari Blocker lets you create custom rules. Here's a screenshot where I've created a couple custom rules. It even lets you hide CSS:

 

[Apple_Robert]

I am getting fed up with Purify ignoring my questions on their Twitter feed, especially when they claim to want to have top notch customer support.