iOS 9 Ad Blocker

[PetPet]

Why not wait for adblock plus which is supposedly coming soon? It's free on Android so I would imagine it to be the same on iOS no..?

Because they have "acceptable ads"

 

[oric1]

wow thanks for the info.

at the same price, purify is better than crystal. website seems to load faster on purify.

paid for both and think i will just use purify

This is one of the reviews on the US AppStore. I'm going go get mine now

No Ads! Fast! Simple!
by Ninja Tabby

Publishers should stop spreading B/s on websites about how ads fund the web. In stead, work on making your ads less obnoxious.

This app makes loading websites a LOT faster and uses noticeably less data. I have tried all the ad blockers available and this one is the fastest. I also experiment using multiple adblockers, and as long as Purify is active, I'd get the same speedy load time. So feel free to stack 'em.

If speed is your thing, this app is totally worth it. If not then crystal or Blockr should be sufficient. Although they are not as fast as Purify, they are still faster than loading pages without adblock. And this is coming from a guy who never spent money on app store before ios 9 and adblock.

All this make me wonder how much better if Apple make adblock native to ios themselves.

I would pay even more to have an adblock app developed by Apple and is enabled automatically. Apple would be a huge player in the war against ads and publishers' anti-adblocker tools.

 

[yeowboon]

Any of u guys know whats the diff between a free adblock and one that cost money? Because i honestly cannot see any diff between the two and wonder if there's really the need to spend money although its cheap...

 

[arcturuz]

just bought purify for $1.28

noticed that if i use purify, straits times page will end up blank
if i turn of purify and use back crystal, straits times page will load properly

 

[kEvinErd]

Because they have "acceptable ads"

Can choose to block those apps too.

 

[yeowboon]

just bought purify for $1.28

noticed that if i use purify, straits times page will end up blank
if i turn of purify and use back crystal, straits times page will load properly

Did u on the images, fonts and script for the purify app? Maybe thats the reason why its blank?

 

[KwayChup]

u mean u see $1.28 in e AppStore but kena charged $2.00?

Ya very certain about that

 

[KwayChup]

Might be your credit card

Forever kena charged extra for Apple app store and play store even when it shown sgd

 

[szeli]

Forever kena charged extra for Apple app store and play store even when it shown sgd

login to https://reportaproblem.apple.com/
what is e price shown on e purchase history?

 

[szeli]

just bought purify for $1.28

noticed that if i use purify, straits times page will end up blank
if i turn of purify and use back crystal, straits times page will load properly

Did u on the images, fonts and script for the purify app? Maybe thats the reason why its blank?

yup ST website is blank with purify. basically ST is junk?
anyway purify is fast but currently no way to feedback sites that r not working. crystal has this feedback built into e share sheet...

 

[arcturuz]

Did u on the images, fonts and script for the purify app? Maybe thats the reason why its blank?

nope, all turned off

 

[chenaz]

for those using ad block and the web page shows blank. all u need to do is
1)press and hold on the refresh button and reload page without content page,the page should appeared.
2)do a normal refresh again, the site should load normally with content blocker.

be it purify or crystal or admop. it is the same.
i am use free ad block(admop) it blocked the singtel website also.after i did the above steps and it works fine after tat.

hope this helps

 

[szeli]

for those using ad block and the web page shows blank. all u need to do is
1)press and hold on the refresh button and reload page without content page,the page should appeared.
2)do a normal refresh again, the site should load normally with content blocker.

be it purify or crystal or admop. it is the same.
i am use free ad block(admop) it blocked the singtel website also.after i did the above steps and it works fine after tat.

hope this helps

i tried yr 1), 2) but it doesn't work for me. e page is still blank.

interestingly enough though e content is actually still there, i searched for some words on e blank page, it is able to find e words on e blank page. probably is a safari bug.

 

[*adiBOY]

i tried yr 1), 2) but it doesn't work for me. e page is still blank.

interestingly enough though e content is actually still there, i searched for some words on e blank page, it is able to find e words on e blank page. probably is a safari bug.

Yes I just tried it with Purify too. It's loaded a blank page on Safari. Even after I reloaded it without content blockers and reloaded with content blockers again.

 

[otacon]

Crystal is not longer free, should hv got it before that

 

[TrueBeliever_jh]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/24/9393941/clear-ios-ad-blocker-offering-paid-whitelist

if you are using Crystal, you need to know this

After Marco Arment abruptly removed Peace, the first top-selling iOS 9 ad blocker, from the App Store, another app called Crystal has risen in its place. In fact, Crystal is now the number one paid app on Apple's mobile platform. The Wall Street Journal says reports that developer Dean Murphy has already earned around $75,000 (leaving out Apple's chunk) from sales of the 99 cent app. Not bad — but apparently it's also not enough. The Journal's piece also reveals that Murphy has entered into an agreement with Adblock Pro maker Eyeo GmbH that will allow other companies to pay so that their ads get through Crystal's filter.

If your adblocker takes money from you in order to block ads, and then takes money from huge companies in order to show you the ads that you paid for it to block, then yes; it’s just using you to erect a tollbooth.

on top of you paying for the app. he is getting money from the other side. then it totally defeat the purpose of the app.


even the purify app is pretty shady. i believe Purify App developer is also trying to earn money in the same way. such a perfect world we are in~

 

[athenodorus]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/24/9393941/clear-ios-ad-blocker-offering-paid-whitelist

if you are using Crystal, you need to know this





on top of you paying for the app. he is getting money from the other side. then it totally defeat the purpose of the app.


even the purify app is pretty shady. i believe Purify App developer is also trying to earn money in the same way. such a perfect world we are in~

humans are greedy. cannot blame. but right now, what other options do we have?

 

[hellfire88]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/24/9393941/clear-ios-ad-blocker-offering-paid-whitelist

if you are using Crystal, you need to know this





on top of you paying for the app. he is getting money from the other side. then it totally defeat the purpose of the app.


even the purify app is pretty shady. i believe Purify App developer is also trying to earn money in the same way. such a perfect world we are in~

purify says they will not do what crystal did
https://twitter.com/purify_app/status/647188444720951296

Just hope that purify stick to their word

 

[Zapper1819]

purify says they will not do what crystal did
https://twitter.com/purify_app/status/647188444720951296

Just hope that purify stick to their word

Why not just use the free one like admop?

 

[PetPet]

Why not just use the free one like admop?

Because there is no such thing as free lunch and we can't see the block list. I think I would rather pay a little and have a fuss and ad free experience.