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meh. it's subpar


Still waiting for you to tell me what you can’t do?

You went from:

1. Web blockers aren’t available for iOS (which they have been since 2014)

2. They aren’t as good because iOS doesn’t support web extensions (which they have since 2021)

3. Look at this website thst shows ads (then I posted screenshots showing 1Blocker working)

4. A closed source extension can inject JavaScript and has security problems (Thsrs not how ad blockers on iOS have worked since 2014)

5. But you have to pay for it! (I paid $7 back in 2014 and even now you pay $35 for a lifetime subscription.

6. Static list of content blockers aren’t good enough! Okay show me what they don’t do by themselves. But either way see #2.

7. So now show me what I’m missing (crickets…)


I mean I didn't read but the first experiment I did wit 1Blocker showed ads. That's all I need to know.

I'm fine with the industry strongest adblocking tool. And it's open source to boot.

I'd never trust a mere closed source list of URLs. Imagine using this all day with websites changing URLs and this "smol" company having to keep up with it.


So you installed 1Blocker. But I posted screenshots showing it didn’t have ads. Either you didn’t install it or you didn’t go into settings to enable it

And am o suppose to believe you by fiat that “it’s the worlds strongest” even though you couldn’t site one thing that it could do that 1Blocker couldn’t?

The list of urls it’s blocking is in the interface and you can add your own You’re really not going to well here…

So you realize you just add another goal post that’s also invalid? Are you now saying that you only use open source software or that you only care that your ad blocker is open source?




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