Adblock Fast

The world’s fastest ad blocker!

5 followers

The world’s fastest ad blocker!

5 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

Launch Team

jason

Inside

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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10yr ago

Web Smith

2PM

@jason sorta like Pando's approach?

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10yr ago

Zac Nielson

@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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10yr ago

David McGraw

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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10yr ago

Brian Kennish

Disconnect

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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10yr ago

Paul Shapiro

Dropit for Clubhouse

It would be great to see a uBlock comparison.

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10yr ago

Brian Kennish

Disconnect

Maker

@fighto Okay! The next time we do a benchmarking roundup (although I’d prefer if others took over the public comparing). Fwiw, a uBlock supporter on Hacker News ran a memory test and said uBlock *only* used 70% more memory than Adblock Fast. :-/

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10yr ago