Better

A content blocker for iPhone and iPad

3 followers

A content blocker for iPhone and iPad

3 followers

Better is a privacy tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We protect you from behavioural ads and companies that track and profile you on the web.

Launch tags:iOS•Ad Blockers•Privacy

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Happy to support their work but price too steep. Puzzled to read app being 'free' in iTunes blurb. Needs clarity and better definition of what's what.

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10yr ago

Hunter

@tomflemming See https://source.ind.ie/groups/better - "Free" as in source & build scripts fully open but for sure not as easy as pressing the "buy" button on the App Store

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10yr ago

Hypetrace

@tomflemming "Too steep"? It's a price of one latte.

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9yr ago

Hunter

Ive been a long term supporter of ind.ie and what they are trying to achieve so I am delighted they just released this new iOS content blocker. Why is it different (and better than many others) - Trust. Ind.ie (@aral, @laurakalbag and rest of @indie team) are "a Social Enterprise striving for social justice in the digital age." Will post some more once I have had a chance to use this a bit more.

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10yr ago

$4.99? nope.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

@bdotwaller $4.99 seems like a reasonable price, imo.

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10yr ago

Hunter

@bdotwaller my view on this is that you are not buying just an app. Instead, you are supporting a not for profit content blocker with real ethics and trust. One that will not sell out to the ad industry to whitelist their ads. That's worth the $5. But that is my view and you are of course entitled to yours.

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10yr ago

@imrat @bdotwaller As far as I can tell from their website, they are indeed "for profit". Of course if you think the app is worth the price, buy it! Just don't feel like you're donating to charity. If you want to donate to an organization to protect your privacy, may I suggest EFF.org? Also note that all these adblockers build upon blocklists built by the community, originally developed for the Adblock extension, primarily Easylist. Those tireless volunteers truly deserve our thanks.

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10yr ago

Hunter

@jaydelgato should have made that more clear. Main purpose of ind.ie as a social enterprise is its cause, and not maximising profit distribution to its shareholders/owners. So by buying you are supporting the cause (https://ind.ie/about/). for those not aware - all source is here => https://source.ind.ie/groups/better

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10yr ago

FYI one of the App Store reviews says it only works for Safari

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10yr ago

@milesbackward Which is the same for all iOS ad blocking apps.

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10yr ago

@unseenvision hey, I was wondering about this. Why is that?

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10yr ago

@andym_dc That's just the way it was built. It's really "content blocking". There are some good articles on it here: http://bit.ly/1Kj3fJM and here: http://bit.ly/1Uupiiq

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10yr ago

@unseenvision Thank you!

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10yr ago

@unseenvision just thought it should be made clear. As a Chrome user on iOS, I don't see many ads anyway, but I thought others might want to know, as I did.

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10yr ago

How does this compare to 1Blocker?

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10yr ago

What's the draw here over, say, Opera's VPN which purports to block trackers and ads?

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10yr ago

Can someone explain me the difference between Refine and this? Except the price tag, of course.

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10yr ago

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