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The iOS 9 Content Blocker thread

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honestly i am tired of content blockers... there are so many right now..

i will stick with adblock fast and in a few months i will re-watch the market to see which is the best.
 
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hank moody said:
honestly i am tired of content blockers... there are so much right now..

i will stick with adblock fast and in a few months i will re-watch the market to see which is the best.
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For once I agree! I'm also sticking with Adblock Fast and Silentium (Social and EU Cookie Warning Blockers)

Watching 1Blocker though as believe that has promise if a few things are added....
 
There's another app on the ad blocker scene — "NoAds - block ads on Wi-Fi networks in apps and browsers plus content blocker", https://itunes.apple.com/app/noads-block-ads-on-wi-fi-networks/id882311006?mt=8.
It has actually been around before iOS 9, and was called "AdBlock for Wi-Fi" back then, allowing to block ads in most apps (Wi-Fi only, works via custom JavaScript URL that you paste into Wi-Fi network settings).
Now it has added Safari content blocker. Both features can be activated independently.
There are several predefined filters (Global, USA, Arab world, Bulgaria, China, Czech republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Korea), as well as custom whitelist and blacklist.

In my tests (Global + USA lists), many ads were blocked but most tracking scripts were let through. Perhaps regional filter lists are more effective in their respective regions.
However the ability to block ads in apps on Wi-Fi is quite an interesting feature. Despite the fact that it requires proxy settings, your whole traffic does not pass through a proxy. The decision what to block or not is made locally on your device, unblocked traffic is then sent normally and blocked is sent to a "dummy proxy" (usually Google's DNS servers that simply reject HTTP connections).
I use Weblock app that works similarly but is more customisable and allows to set a custom dummy proxy (localhost:8021 in my case, meaning that blocked traffic never leaves my device). NoAds lacks this feature, though, so 8.8.4.4:53 is used instead.
 
hank moody said:
honestly i am tired of content blockers... there are so much right now..

i will stick with adblock fast and in a few months i will re-watch the market to see which is the best.
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Yeah, I'm getting worn out on this too. For now, my choice of content blockers is sufficient. I'll revisit this area later to see if fine tuning is required.
 
I've settled on Silentium and AdMop.

I'm keeping an eye on Ad Block Multi and Purify (when he updates the app).
 
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scjr said:
I've settled on Silentium and AdMop.

I'm keeping an eye on Ad Block Multi and Purify (when he updates the app).
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Lol.. Almost the same for me.

I've settled on Silentium. I'll keep Purify, Admop and Crystal on the phone for when I'm bored and want to switch it up.

I actually have Weblock on the phone but too bad it works only on wifi.
 
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Yeah, somehow all this brouhaha about content blockers has gotten pretty old pretty quick, at least in my case. That's not to say that the subject doesn't interest me anymore, but fiddling around with ten different options is just something I don't want to spend my time (not to mention my hard earned money) doing.

Really like reading the reviews and other commentary on the subject, but for now I've found the one I'm gonna go with (at least for the time being) and that's that.
 
Mefisto said:
Yeah, somehow all this brouhaha about content blockers has gotten pretty old pretty quick, at least in my case. That's not to say that the subject doesn't interest me anymore, but fiddling around with ten different options is just something I don't want to spend my time (not to mention my hard earned money) doing.

Really like reading the reviews and other commentary on the subject, but for now I've found the one I'm gonna go with (at least for the time being) and that's that.
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which one ?
 
Guys, do you think that this Content Blocker story became like an Android customization ROMs ?!! Everybody is "preparing" his own app which in its core is the same as all other. Small cosmetics changes or settings and that is all. I honk all of them use the same list sources. There should be an Apple's build in original content blocker with an option to add third party similar blockers. Otherwise here we will see thousands of home made apps...
 
myname70 said:
Guys, do you think that this Content Blocker story became like an Android customization ROMs ?!! Everybody is "preparing" his own app which in its core is the same as all other. Small cosmetics changes or settings and that is all. I honk all of them use the same list sources. There should be an Apple's build in original content blocker with an option to add third party similar blockers. Otherwise here we will see thousands of home made apps...
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Yeah, looking at BGG's reviews many fall over on the same sites which would imply that they are using the same unedited lists as a basis.
 
blackboxxx said:
There's another app on the ad blocker scene — "NoAds - block ads on Wi-Fi networks in apps and browsers plus content blocker", https://itunes.apple.com/app/noads-block-ads-on-wi-fi-networks/id882311006?mt=8.
It has actually been around before iOS 9, and was called "AdBlock for Wi-Fi" back then, allowing to block ads in most apps (Wi-Fi only, works via custom JavaScript URL that you paste into Wi-Fi network settings).
Now it has added Safari content blocker. Both features can be activated independently.
There are several predefined filters (Global, USA, Arab world, Bulgaria, China, Czech republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Korea), as well as custom whitelist and blacklist.

In my tests (Global + USA lists), many ads were blocked but most tracking scripts were let through. Perhaps regional filter lists are more effective in their respective regions.
However the ability to block ads in apps on Wi-Fi is quite an interesting feature. Despite the fact that it requires proxy settings, your whole traffic does not pass through a proxy. The decision what to block or not is made locally on your device, unblocked traffic is then sent normally and blocked is sent to a "dummy proxy" (usually Google's DNS servers that simply reject HTTP connections).
I use Weblock app that works similarly but is more customisable and allows to set a custom dummy proxy (localhost:8021 in my case, meaning that blocked traffic never leaves my device). NoAds lacks this feature, though, so 8.8.4.4:53 is used instead.
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This is more like Weblock (they only work on WiFi and do not employ iOS Content Blocker technology so are not as fast.

https://www.weblockapp.com
 
On my iPhone and iPad Air.

Purify is Active.

Silentium is dormant.
Crystal is dormant.

Thinking of downloading Ad Block Multi
 
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