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I notice a pretty marked difference between the best ad blocker I could find for iOS (1 BlockerX) and uBlock Origin on Firefox. The difference in utility is st

I notice a pretty marked difference between the best ad blocker I could find for iOS (1 BlockerX) and uBlock Origin on Firefox. The difference in utility is stark enough that if I'm on the road and need to browse the web outside of known-safe sites, I find it more pleasant to do so on my 5.7" Android phone than on my 10" iPad.

scarface74 8y ago
What are some sites where ads get through with 1Blocher?
- Marsymars 8y ago
  It's not just ads, it's also not having the ability to only allow 3rd-party scripts and frames via whitelist. Since I don't use Safari for "normal" browsing, I can't recall any specific problematic sites, but just opening some random news headlines I get the following unwanted behaviours, roughly half of which are nags to install the iOS app: * theverge.com - nag to disable ad blocker * nbcbayarea.com - nag to install app * youtube.com - nag to install app, autoplaying video, all the rest of the junk that YouTube annoyances blocklist blocks for me with uBlock: https://youtube.adblockplus.me/ https://youtube.adblockplus.me/ * lifehacker.com - annoying animated recommended story gif (to be fair this isn't an ad-blocking issue, it's just a configuration setting that Safari doesn't offer) * bloomberg.com - nag to install app, nag to subscribe * forbes.com - nag to install app * observer.com - autoplaying video ad * twitter - app nag, login/signup nag
  - scarface74 8y ago
    I’m not getting some of the app install nagware, but I’m also not getting them when I disable content blockers so it may just be a cookie thing. Also I couldn’t manually block the nagware on the NBC site using the share extension. I only use YouTube mostly for official AWS videos and then I use CornerTube. I usually don’t see ads. Do content producers get to choose when ads are shown?
    - Marsymars 8y ago
      > Do content producers get to choose when ads are shown? That's my understanding. Also a mostly non-YouTube user though, I find the web interface really unpleasant - if I were going to "use" it on a regular basis I'd probably use youtube-dl.

scarface74 8y ago

What are some sites where ads get through with 1Blocher?

Marsymars 8y ago
It's not just ads, it's also not having the ability to only allow 3rd-party scripts and frames via whitelist. Since I don't use Safari for "normal" browsing, I can't recall any specific problematic sites, but just opening some random news headlines I get the following unwanted behaviours, roughly half of which are nags to install the iOS app: * theverge.com - nag to disable ad blocker * nbcbayarea.com - nag to install app * youtube.com - nag to install app, autoplaying video, all the rest of the junk that YouTube annoyances blocklist blocks for me with uBlock: https://youtube.adblockplus.me/ https://youtube.adblockplus.me/ * lifehacker.com - annoying animated recommended story gif (to be fair this isn't an ad-blocking issue, it's just a configuration setting that Safari doesn't offer) * bloomberg.com - nag to install app, nag to subscribe * forbes.com - nag to install app * observer.com - autoplaying video ad * twitter - app nag, login/signup nag
- scarface74 8y ago
  I’m not getting some of the app install nagware, but I’m also not getting them when I disable content blockers so it may just be a cookie thing. Also I couldn’t manually block the nagware on the NBC site using the share extension. I only use YouTube mostly for official AWS videos and then I use CornerTube. I usually don’t see ads. Do content producers get to choose when ads are shown?
  - Marsymars 8y ago
    > Do content producers get to choose when ads are shown? That's my understanding. Also a mostly non-YouTube user though, I find the web interface really unpleasant - if I were going to "use" it on a regular basis I'd probably use youtube-dl.