iOS 9 Ad Blocker

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Just wanted to bring some attention to this lesser known feature of iOS 9, content blocking.

Main benefits

1. Faster page loading time
2. Consume less data (a godsend for those with 3gb data plans)
3. Costs less to view a page

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Effectiveness of ad blockers

Estimated load time

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Data usage

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Cost per page

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The day of reckoning for mobile ads is coming. Combine the ad-blocker which blocks ads in safari on 4G and weblock which blocks ads in apps on wifi, you will never have to see another ad again :D:D
 
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gkhchay said:
Weblock isn't free; Adblock is free & works very well.
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Weblock costs just $1.99. Very much worth the price as it blocks ads in apps such as the straits times which continually shove ads into your face and also in pretty much any app that you download where they have this persistently annoying banner at the top.

The adblock you are referring to is just a 3rd party browser, not native to safari. Cum iOS 9, it will be native to safari and most importantly, easy to enable by merely just downloading an ad blocking app and toggling it on.
 
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dker333 said:
Weblock costs just $1.99. Very much worth the price as it blocks ads in apps such as the straits times which continually shove ads into your face and also in pretty much any app that you download where they have this persistently annoying banner at the top.

The adblock you are referring to is just a 3rd party browser, not native to safari. Cum iOS 9, it will be native to safari and most importantly, easy to enable by merely just downloading an ad blocking app and toggling it on.
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Nope, Adblock is not a browser, it's an app - do a search on App Store. Adblock is black in color.

Been using it since early this year when I got my 6+: excellent free app that blocks all ads & stops redirects to games, App Store etc. Go try it yourself.
 
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gkhchay said:
Nope, Adblock is not a browser, it's an app - do a search on App Store. Adblock is black in color.

Been using it since early this year when I got my 6+: excellent free app that blocks all ads & stops redirects to games, App Store etc. Go try it yourself.
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Thanks for the intro. Tried it out and it seems to work by redirecting traffic through a VPN. I don't know about you but I'm not comfortable with all of my web traffic going through a middleman where its vulnerable.

I'll just wait for iOS 9 where there will be native ad blockers which block ads at the system level rather than through a middleman :)
 
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yes, i'll gladly pay for e addon than use a "free" proxy/vpn that no one knows is doing what with my data.
 
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seems like there's 2 such addons in beta now. I have signed up for both. if I get e access will update to iOS 9 beta to try!
 
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gkhchay said:
Nope, Adblock is not a browser, it's an app - do a search on App Store. Adblock is black in color.

Been using it since early this year when I got my 6+: excellent free app that blocks all ads & stops redirects to games, App Store etc. Go try it yourself.
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so which one is the correct one to download? adblock or adblocker? I think there is 2 on apple store - one is black and one is red I think. The red one seems to have more reviews though based on apple store
 
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Extremme said:
so which one is the correct one to download? adblock or adblocker? I think there is 2 on apple store - one is black and one is red I think. The red one seems to have more reviews though based on apple store
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I'm using Adblock, the black one - works very well. The red one is a browser: it doesn't block ads from other apps.
 
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*adiBOY said:
Tried it yesterday. Lag like hell. Deleted off my phone immediately. Better off using the AdBlocker app.
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hmm it works ok for me. quite fast in fact. only thing is e browser quite bare bone. not much features.
 
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Running the iOS 9 beta and playing around with the crystal ad blocker for some time now. Works very well, you really feel the difference in performance when ads don't load on your page. Everything feels smoother as well. Definitely paying for it when it gets released. :)
 
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Just got invited to a beta version of purify I must say content blocker works really well
 
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