Today, I’m launching my own iOS 9 content blocker, called Peace, to bring peace, quiet, privacy, and — as a nice side benefit — ludicrous speed to iOS web browsing.
I always like the software Marco makes.
Peace: Marco Arment’s iOS 9 ad blocker
Today, I’m launching my own iOS 9 content blocker, called Peace, to bring peace, quiet, privacy, and — as a nice side benefit — ludicrous speed to iOS web browsing.
I always like the software Marco makes.
Yep. Well done. Sufficient settings for me and some useful extensions. Nothing wrong with the price either, should be more, but who would buy it…
Just hit the bit about him licensing the data from Ghostery. Done.
Damn right. $2.99? Is he crazy? Maybe .99¢ but $2.99? No way bro. Now launch it free with ad supported…. Hey, wait.. Uh.. No. Ha ha
/s for those who can’t tell.
If you install Peace, you really need to prepare yourself. Once you start browsing with it, you’re likely to be infuriated about how handicapped ads have made your iOS browsing. It gets almost instant.
Just installed it. Thanks for the tip! Any recommendations for a equally good OS X blocker?
Ghostery of course.
I’ve been using Peace all evening. I swear it seems like I’m using a future-shipping iPad. Amazing.
Gah!! I’ve just discovered that Safari Content Blocker extensions won’t work on anything less than a 5S or iPad 4. Gah!! It means that the devices that could really benefit the most from those striped down pages aren’t supported 🙁 Sad, sad times, but so very typical of Apple.
Ah, okay, thanks. I thought it only blocked tracking.
You had me worried for a bit. 🙂
Yes, indeed. Very typical of Apple to only support a feature on 64-bit devices that would slow other devices so far down that the ad blocking would be a net negative… How dare they?
Content blockers now appear to be to 2015 what fart apps and flashlight apps were to 2008.
Not convinced it’d slow older devices down. I would be amazed if the cost of running the extension was more than the cost of loading and executing the additional resources in most web pages. Haven’t checked instruments to see what impact the extension has on WebKit, but I would expect it to be low enough to not be a problem, even in 512MB RAM, and even on a Cortex A9 at 800Mhz. Besides, iPhone 5 had 1GB RAM, just like the 5S.
I have no idea why Apple requires 64-bit for this feature, but there’s no execution involved. Apps produce a table of rules which Safari uses.
I would assume Apple’s benchmarked that and found it bad, but I don’t really know.