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The iOS 9 Content Blocker thread

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Yeah... I had that in the back of my head :). Somehow I confused that he will add those features to his next major release.
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I've searched this thread but haven't seen....are any of these ad blockers going to work on Chrome?
 
ryanmcv said:
The New York Times has a nice article about iOS ad blockers and just how effective they are. Worth the read!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/technology/personaltech/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html
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Wow it says
In another example, the home page of The Los Angeles Times measured 5.7 megabytes with ads. After shedding ads, that dropped to 1.6 megabytes with Crystal and 1.9 megabytes with Purify and 1Blocker.

That's a huge difference in data to shave that much and times that with all the sites you visit in a day.
 
MrGuder said:
Wow it says
In another example, the home page of The Los Angeles Times measured 5.7 megabytes with ads. After shedding ads, that dropped to 1.6 megabytes with Crystal and 1.9 megabytes with Purify and 1Blocker.

That's a huge difference in data to shave that much and times that with all the sites you visit in a day.
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Yep, pretty impressive. The Boston.com example was even more profound:

The benefits of ad blockers stood out the most when loading the Boston.com website. With ads, that home page on average measured 19.4 megabytes; with ads removed using Crystal or Purify, it measured four megabytes, and with 1Blocker, it measured 4.5 megabytes. On a 4G network, this translated to the page taking 39 seconds to load with ads and eight seconds to load without ads.
 
ryanmcv said:
Yep, pretty impressive. The Boston.com example was even more profound:

The benefits of ad blockers stood out the most when loading the Boston.com website. With ads, that home page on average measured 19.4 megabytes; with ads removed using Crystal or Purify, it measured four megabytes, and with 1Blocker, it measured 4.5 megabytes. On a 4G network, this translated to the page taking 39 seconds to load with ads and eight seconds to load without ads.
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Exactly, these are amazing results especially the time shaved too loading without any ads.
 
ryanmcv said:
Yep, pretty impressive. The Boston.com example was even more profound:

The benefits of ad blockers stood out the most when loading the Boston.com website. With ads, that home page on average measured 19.4 megabytes; with ads removed using Crystal or Purify, it measured four megabytes, and with 1Blocker, it measured 4.5 megabytes. On a 4G network, this translated to the page taking 39 seconds to load with ads and eight seconds to load without ads.
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Yep, quite nice for those of us on a limited data plan!
 
hank moody said:
Speedafari


http://lifehacker.com/1735193866
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I have emailed the developer. Hopefully, I will be hear back and be able to do a review.

Edited to add: The developer was quick to respond to my email. He was very happy to read that I wished to review his product for the forum. He graciously provided me a redemption code, and I will be posting a review of Speedafari this week.
 
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spacemnspiff said:
What are the downsides of the traffic routed through a VPN?
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Do you know and trust the folks operating the VPN? Is your information sold to the highest bidder to pay for the service? Think of the information that is sent to and from your phone. Now imagine that information getting into the wrong hands.
 
ardchoille50 said:
Do you know and trust the folks operating the VPN? Is your information sold to the highest bidder to pay for the service? Think of the information that is sent to and from your phone. Now imagine that information getting into the wrong hands.
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Thanks for the post. That's not what I would want an ad blocker to do. That app is a no go for me. Thanks again.
 
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Dlh1970 said:
Been Choice has been removed from the app store.
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It was removed because it uses a root cert. Here's an explanation:

"Apps that rely on root certification installations, like popular option Been Choice, go further than vanilla Safari ad-blocking extensions by sending off user network data to offsite servers, where offending content is filtered out. This system, while more comprehensive in its protection of apps outside of Safari, opens users to potential attacks as monitored traffic could be intercepted at a content blocker's servers."

This is exactly why some of us refused to use Been Choice.
 
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