Adblock Fast

The world’s fastest ad blocker!

6 followers

The world’s fastest ad blocker!

6 followers

Adblock Fast is a new, faster ad blocker and the first open-source ad blocker for iOS (http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/09/adblock-fast-is-a-free-and-open-source-way-to-banish-ads-in-ios-9)! Just as webpages grew bloated with ads, so too have ad blockers grown bloated with little-used filtering rules and features that sap their speed and hog your device’s disk space, CPU cycles, and memory.

Launch tags:iOS•iPad•Chrome Extensions

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Hunter

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about AdBlocking, on one hand i think the user has the right to do whatever they want on their desktop, on the other it feels like the free web will be challenged by Apple's new support of ad blocking on mobile. If ads were not so obtuse there wouldn't be this growing reaction against them, so I think ultimately ad blocking software exists because publishers are pushing too hard. Eventually I think these services will force publishers to move to user-supported models more and more.

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11yr ago

2PM

@jason sorta like Pando's approach?

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11yr ago

@jason I agree with you. Since Apple is supporting it on mobile, its just a matter of time before publishers are changing how they advertise completely. It is way too pushy and everywhere. I completely see why people would want to get ads out of the way, they're too intrusive. Even if I never use ad blockers. Nice product for what it is, though.

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11yr ago

Tomorrow: To-Do List, Focused

@jason Allowing ads to be skipped was a big win for me. I still don't get why so many content providers don't allow that. I'll stick around for an interesting/focused ad around my interests. Let me get on with my day when irrelevant ads hit. Then you have the repetition issue. It's a test of patience seeing the same, non-skippable, ad when I need to refresh the page (sync issues) or when a producer decides to play ads on sites like Twitch. As a consumer I'd love to learn about new things I wasn't aware of. As a builder I suck it up to support these services. As a realist it's hard to blame anyone for wanting to flip something like this on. Someone needs to shake up how this stuff hits us.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@jason Thanks for posting! And for bringing the subject up. Lots and lots of people already use ad blockers … that are technically (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnether...) and ethically (https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...) challenged. We thought ad blocking coming to iOS was a good chance to do better. Speaking of iOS, here’s an iOS 9 explainer gif: http://imgur.com/nRJaDZg

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11yr ago

Streetfies

I really don't want to learn what the icons mean on the chrome button, can it just be a pop-up menu like Adblock Plus?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@esbvn Red = blocking. Grey = not so much blocking. That's all you need to know ;)

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11yr ago

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Hunter

most interesting part of this is the mobile piece.... AdBlock Fast is designed for iOS 9... which i think comes out on like the 17th. that's when this war will get really real

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11yr ago

Raycast

Alright, I've disabled AdBlock and Adblock Plus — will give this a shot and see how it fares.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@chrismessina Cool, please report back! I’d love to hear what you find in the wild.

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11yr ago

Raycast

@byoogle well, it fails big time on The Pirate Bay. :)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@chrismessina Fails as in misses ads?

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11yr ago

LiveNinja

@chrismessina as did i. i generally trust PH over everything else. and love the copy. great job @rocketship

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11yr ago

Raycast

@byoogle correct.

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11yr ago

Android version on the way?

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11yr ago

Adblock Fast

Maker

@livejamie No! Unlike Apple, which is adding api explicitly to enable content blocking, Google kicks content blockers out of the Play store. :-(

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11yr ago

Braavo

@byoogle didn't ABP launch on Android just this week?

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11yr ago

@byoogle There are plenty of adblock solutions out for rooted android devices. Adaway is the one I currently use.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@ggnall Ah, they appear to have developed their own browser.

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11yr ago

The first thing I tried, facebook adds, and it's not working =/

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11yr ago

Adblock Fast

Maker

@billey_b Where? I do spot an ad in the right-hand column of my news feed that leaked through. Anywhere else?

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11yr ago

@byoogle Yes, the one one the right. It was unlucky because the first site I tried still had an add :) but I continue to browse and don't find any other for the moment

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11yr ago

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Maker

@billey_b Cool, ty, I filed a bug: https://github.com/rocketshipapp...

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11yr ago