But then I recalled that in addition to an adblocker on macOS I'm using custom DNS servers, two of them to be exact. I couldn't believe that having only an adblocker only in Safari is the only option in fighting ads and tracking on iOS. But the most important thing besides the app's clean simple interface is that it actually does the job - now I'm seeing less ads, pages are loading fast again.Įven though I now had a new working adblocker I was still unsatisfied. Wipr goes around the limitation of 50k hosts by setting itself up as three content blockers all of which you should enable in the Settings.app which is quite clever. Then in the end I saw few comments recommending Wipr and seeing it's 4.8 star rating helped me to decide in its favor. People were recommending many adblockers I already tried, including 1Blocker, mostly because of its strong word of mouth. Some people suggested using AdGuard, others replied not to trust an adblocker made in Russia with your browsing info which made sense. Not willing to support the developer's new version which might be abandoned someday with his next work, I started searching Reddit in order to find a replacement. It felt like the developer abandoned the app which later was proven by him releasing 1Blocker X - an updated version of the adblocker the developer supposedly was working on.
#Adguard or 1blocker reddit mac#
I decided on 1Blocker since it has a Mac app with iCloud sync of your custom filters, whitelists, settings etc.Īfter a year of using 1Blocker I started noticing more and more ads in Safari.
I started my journey of finding the best iOS adblocker right after the new iOS release with Purify, then with Peace ( which was live only for two days), Crystal and ended up using 1Blocker (which is now 'Legacy'). Even though 50 000 hosts sounds like a lot, in practice it wasn't enough to block ads efficiently. The problem was with the limited amount of filters per one app. So in order to launch an adblocking app you could just scrape few filters, maybe some opensource ones and you're done 🙂 The differentiating part is just the list of hosts (filters) to block was slightly different between the adblockers but the main idea was the same: the user had to open Settings.app -> Safari -> Content blockers and enable his adblocker of choice, thus allowing the system block the hosts included in that app. And the reason was that anyone could build an adblocker for iOS in a matter of few days - it was (and is) that simple. The API was so simple and limiting at the same time that few developers pushed out a couple of adblockers literally within days after the iOS 9 worldwide rollout. IOS adblockers were first approached by Apple with the release of iOS 9 when they introduced an adblocking API for Mobile Safari.
#Adguard or 1blocker reddit android#
IOS adblocking options (August 2018) ios, adblocker |Īfter getting into a deep dive with Android adblockers I started wondering whether anything changed on iOS (my daily platform of choice) since the last time I researched this topic.
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