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> The app developer gives the system a JSON list of urls to block.

Hahaha. Nice try. Blocking URLs was never enough because websites just proxy them from their base DNS these days and the list of URLs is limited. Doesn't take much thinking to arrive to that conclusion.

That's the whole reason the internet is bitching about manifest v3 (not v2 as you said).

I guess the free version has a smaller list, that's why I see ads in that website.

And it breaks often too, as expected: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1ctepxi/1blocker_or_ad...

Just because you have a legacy version doesn't change anything. Still pay to fix. And a bad fix at it.



So again you deflect instead admitting you were wrong (again). I give you the same challenge. With just content blocking, show me a site that 1Blocker doesn’t block ads for. Or the even easier challenge tell me functionality that you have that can’t be duplicated on iOS.

Since you don’t want to do that, find a citation where 1blocker doesn’t block ads for a specific site and I will try it myself and post screenshots like I did before.

You brought up a concern about privacy, the content browsing framework protects your privacy.

You completely moved the goal post, now you’re saying that I had to pay $15 11 years ago.

Oh and the link you posted had this comment.

> In my experience 1Blocker is stable, fast, blocks all advertisings and makes my Youtube experience in Safari more fun because there is no advertisings in YouTube. There is a community here talking about r/1Blocker for any kind of question.


meh. it's subpar


Still waiting for you to tell me what you can’t do?

You went from:

1. Web blockers aren’t available for iOS (which they have been since 2014)

2. They aren’t as good because iOS doesn’t support web extensions (which they have since 2021)

3. Look at this website thst shows ads (then I posted screenshots showing 1Blocker working)

4. A closed source extension can inject JavaScript and has security problems (Thsrs not how ad blockers on iOS have worked since 2014)

5. But you have to pay for it! (I paid $7 back in 2014 and even now you pay $35 for a lifetime subscription.

6. Static list of content blockers aren’t good enough! Okay show me what they don’t do by themselves. But either way see #2.

7. So now show me what I’m missing (crickets…)


I mean I didn't read but the first experiment I did wit 1Blocker showed ads. That's all I need to know.

I'm fine with the industry strongest adblocking tool. And it's open source to boot.

I'd never trust a mere closed source list of URLs. Imagine using this all day with websites changing URLs and this "smol" company having to keep up with it.


So you installed 1Blocker. But I posted screenshots showing it didn’t have ads. Either you didn’t install it or you didn’t go into settings to enable it

And am o suppose to believe you by fiat that “it’s the worlds strongest” even though you couldn’t site one thing that it could do that 1Blocker couldn’t?

The list of urls it’s blocking is in the interface and you can add your own You’re really not going to well here…

So you realize you just add another goal post that’s also invalid? Are you now saying that you only use open source software or that you only care that your ad blocker is open source?




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