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We take a slightly different philosophy in that we don't think most users will want to tweak different sets of rules etc. 1Blocker is a great product, but we th

We take a slightly different philosophy in that we don't think most users will want to tweak different sets of rules etc. 1Blocker is a great product, but we think most everyday users will not want to configure rulesets in most circumstances. Our goal is to produce the best default, current set of optimised rules which blocks ads and user trackers without requiring individual user configuration. Obviously power users will possibly want to do more elaborate configuration. In future updates we are planning to enable more sophisticated whitelisting but probably won't have the extensive lists of different rulesets that 1Blocker features. Rulesets are just one of the parts of a great Adblocking product. We believe we can also create a great product with our approach to rulesets and also differentiate on other features.

stephenr 9y ago
It's good to hear that you have reasoning behind your approach. Good luck!
- happybuy 9y ago
  Thank you. Your 1Blocker packages look very useful for users and I can see the merit in being able to let users share and enable specific pre-packaged rules for particular sites. May be something for us to consider to support in future releases of Magic Lasso (as long as we can make the process as streamlined and user friendly as possible).
  - stephenr 9y ago
    One nice thing about 1Blocker 'packages' is that (from what I understand, I've read some of the content blocker docs when the WebKit team announced it, but not in-depth) they're essentially just using the native content blocker format. If you were to go down that route, it might be useful (for end users) if your apps could read e.g 1blocker packages. One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them. I guess if I get time one weekend I might build it...
    - happybuy 9y ago
      > One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them. This should perhaps be built into the Adblocker extension and enable users to see suitable packages in context when they are browsing compatible URLs ;)

stephenr 9y ago

It's good to hear that you have reasoning behind your approach. Good luck!

happybuy 9y ago
Thank you. Your 1Blocker packages look very useful for users and I can see the merit in being able to let users share and enable specific pre-packaged rules for particular sites. May be something for us to consider to support in future releases of Magic Lasso (as long as we can make the process as streamlined and user friendly as possible).
- stephenr 9y ago
  One nice thing about 1Blocker 'packages' is that (from what I understand, I've read some of the content blocker docs when the WebKit team announced it, but not in-depth) they're essentially just using the native content blocker format. If you were to go down that route, it might be useful (for end users) if your apps could read e.g 1blocker packages. One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them. I guess if I get time one weekend I might build it...
  - happybuy 9y ago
    > One thing thats still missing (AFAIK, happy to be shown otherwise) is a website/app to facilitate finding community built 1blocker packages, and adding them. This should perhaps be built into the Adblocker extension and enable users to see suitable packages in context when they are browsing compatible URLs ;)