Free ad blocker with better performance than paid ones

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Created Sep ’15

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One of my best friend is working on a new adblocker for Safari. It was under beta testing last week. Now it's been published on App Store: https://goo.gl/Z4MusW

But my biggest concern is, should an adblock extension have so many settings and customizations. As a user, I can hardly imagine going back to the app now and then. Turning on and off the switches for pop-ads, banner ads, social widgets, bulabula...In my opinion, it should be as simple and as easy and Adblock Plus on PC. I enable it and forget about it.

To my surprise, it works much better even than many paid ones, such as Crystal. I know many of them broke user experience on e-commerce sites by blocking blocks images and banners that are not supposed to be blocked, such as Sears or Walmart.

Waiting to hear your opinions...

Thx!

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Guyverson Junior OP

Sep ’15

How do you archive the app its says "App istatlation failed... Bundle identifiers must be unique." how do you fix that i would be so greatfull if you could help me out.

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drewster OP

Oct ’15

Hey quick question... I've got a content blocker I've developed -- it works perfectly when launched from Xcode on my device, but the app store reviewer says they can't see that it blocks anything. So I sent the build to TestFlight and downloaded on my device and then it doesn't work. When I move the slider to enable it in settings, I see this error in console:

Oct 13 07:12:24 Andrews-iPhone6 Preferences[203] <Warning>: Error loading content blocker (com.AndrewBenson.AndrewBundleName---Content-Blocker): Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.SafariServices.ContentBlockerLoader" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.SafariServices.ContentBlockerLoader}

When I launch Safari then, no content is blocked, and no amount of closing and reopening Safari and enabling and disabling the blocker will make it work.

I did stick some NSLogs in my ActionHandler for the content blocker just to make sure beginRequestWithExtensionContext was getting called, but it is working. Additionally, I call completeRequestReturningItems with a completion handler and no error is getting returned.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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