Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker • Hacker News Board

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

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Post by methou » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:24 AM UTC

Finally. Will disconnect.me soon provide an iOS Safari plugin?

edit: more specified to iOS.

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

#12

Post by wtvanhest » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:36 AM UTC

Is anyone working on a machine learning ad blocker?

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

#13

Post by lstamour » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:37 AM UTC

Just bought and tried (in this order): Crystal, Purify and Peace. Each has features to like. Crystal has a great price and is the only one to let you report an ad not blocked or broken page so that the ad block list can be updated. Purify lets you block scripts and images on top of font-blocking options also in Peace. Crystal missed an ad that Purify (and Peace) caught, but Peace was the only one that seriously removed all the cruft causing slowdowns, even Google+ news site pop ups and like button pinned banners from The Verge in addition to blocking ads. So my recommendations are Crystal for price, Peace for well, exactly what it says on the tin, and Purify if you'd like to block images and scripts also. Check screenshots of each for the latest on their preference panels.

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

#14

Post by stephenr » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:39 AM UTC

This looks like its nice and simple, but does anyone know if there are any iOS9/El Capitan content blockers that support sync'd granular management of the actual block list?

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

#15

Post by Someone » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:39 AM UTC

"This app is not compatible with your device"

iPad (first generation with retina screen, I think), running iOS 9. What gives?

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

#16

Post by Doctor_Fegg » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:40 AM UTC

ratfacemcgee wrote: post #8

its not Crystals fault, but its disappointing that this kind of ad blocking is unavailable for 32bit devices, like iPhone 5/5c (and below).

Indeed. I find it curious that it's not available for "performance reasons" - surely rendering an ad takes more CPU than blocking one?

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

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Post by LeoNatan25 » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:40 AM UTC

Someone wrote: post #15

"This app is not compatible with your device" iPad (first generation with retina screen, I think), running iOS 9. What gives?

Content blocking requires a 64-bit CPU.

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

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Post by LoSboccacc » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:40 AM UTC

pvg wrote: post #10

prince_boa wrote: post #4

There is also an app from the ublock guy but it costs about 4$/€. https://www.purify-app.com/

That's an app from the guy who took over uBlock on Safari, the uBlock guy is the guy who wrote uBlock and not the same person.

so, uhm, is him reputable? I'd hate to install and ad blocker only to make the problem worse.

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

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Post by LoSboccacc » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:42 AM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #16

ratfacemcgee wrote: post #8

its not Crystals fault, but its disappointing that this kind of ad blocking is unavailable for 32bit devices, like iPhone 5/5c (and below).

Indeed. I find it curious that it's not available for "performance reasons" - surely rendering an ad takes more CPU than blocking one?

Maybe it refers to the RAM constraints more. They just call out the devices, but the actual constraint might or might not be the CPU

on old devices new safari already struggle to keep in memory more than a couple tabs, so gut instinct points to memory being the issue.

Re: Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 6:44 AM UTC

buffoon wrote: post #9

HarshaThota wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not give Firefox a try then? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

Three reasons: I want my stuff synced with my desktop running Chrome and it's horrible to use and drinks battery. (I have already tried it)

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