1Blocker X also features Regional country-specific adblocking rules - currently Germany & Russia, with more on the way.Īs of now, the only bug I’ve seen people run into is with iCloud sync.
1Blocker Legacy was all or nothing for these kinds of situations.Īside from that huge feature enhancement that also introduces over 120,000 blocking rules in the app, you can now lock the main app behind Face ID and Touch ID to make sure things remain safe if you install this on another device that someone else will use. This is great if you just need to block a certain annoyance on a site, but leave everything else unblocked. To fix this, 1Blocker X uses multiple extensions allowing granular control without foregoing higher limits. Apple has the limit set to 50k rules and the original 1Blocker which is now called 1Blocker Legacy is nearing the limit already. The developer does explain the need for a new app - I had no idea that there was a limit to the number of rules for an extension. Several users have raised concerns about the decision to release a separate new app and leave the old one behind. Today 1Blocker X is available as a separate app and it turns up things to 11 in almost every way.
The one-time in-app purchase I paid for at launch more than paid for itself and it got loads of updates for free since launch. I love apps like this that just work in the background without you having to launch them over and over again or repeatedly keep tweaking them. I can’t believe it has already been a few years since it released and that speaks volumes for how well it has worked for me.
Having tried almost every Content Blocker for Safari on the App Store, I settled on 1Blocker. You can go to all that trouble if you want to, or you can just let 1Blocker automatically do its thing.In iPad, iPhone 1Blocker X Is the Definitive Version of the Best iOS Content BlockerġBlocker X replaces the old 1Blocker Legacy app, and for good reasons.Įver since Apple announced Content Blockers for Safari on iOS, I was pretty excited to try the slew of apps that would release to coincide with the big feature release.
So if you hit the same sites on a regular basis, you can customize your visit to only show the elements you want, speed up page loading and minimize data even more. But you can also take things further by filtering out social widgets, custom fonts, comments and even ignore CSS page elements. By filtering out the ads and associated technology you can speed up browsing and reduce data by about 50% with 1Blocker. Maybe an even more practical reason for getting 1Blocker is that it effectively allows you to eliminate other unwanted content that sites push on your browser. (My personal thought is that if someone paid for an ad blocker, they probably never click on an ad anyway.) Added bonus: Improving speed. But some of the ad-blockers want to defeat this as well. It doesn’t interfere with the enjoyment of his content at all. For example, John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog uses a tiny ad that’s relevant to his readers. Unfortunately with the birth of ad blockers, every site is paying for the abuses of the few (well, the few million.) There are many sites out there that do ads reasonably. This gives control of your web experience back to you. It’s infinitely configurable, so if you actually find the ads on a particular site useful you can whitelist it. 1Blocker was one of the first and continues to be one of the simplest and most effective ad blockers for iOS.
1Blocker to the rescue.Īd blockers work in Safari on iOS to turn off the ads and add-related technology, like tracking cookies. And even Scott Cunningham (Senior VP at the Interactive Advertising Bureau) admits * “Looking back now, our scraping of dimes may have cost us dollars in consumer loyalty.”*Ĭreepy tracking aside, many sites trashed their worth to their reader with an overabundance of ads. Pop-ups, pop-overs, pop-unders, delay screens, banner ads, self-playing video spots or ads placed in the middle of a content block are all poorly designed to grab your attention in order to get you to click. You tolerate the frustration at best and part ways and talk smack about the site at worst. The problem is that when advertising so voraciously interferes with the content, a website is no longer useful to the reader. In order to make a living and support a staff, the site either advertises something they have to sell or something others have to sell.
All those annoying ads are what fund the content. Por otra parte, recuerda que tambin dispones de 1Blocker para macOS por 10,99 euros en la Mac App Store, el complemento perfecto para deshacerte de AdBlocker y otro tipo de bloqueadores bastante sospechosos. The reality is that we pay for websites to exist.