Adblock for iOS proposal
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:49 am
With the new content blockers in Safari (iOS especially), its now possible to make an extension to hide elements and block specific URLs. This could be pretty amazing if done properly.
I'm playing around with the new JSON blocking syntax, and all I know is that since the blocklist is relatively large, it would be a lot more efficient to parse the current list syntax into a JSON on the fly. It would also be pretty great if someone could open up a repo on ABP's org so I can throw some code up there.
Anyways, its pretty promising and I hope I can help make this work. So far blocking works fine, I've managed to block elements, urls (scripts), and some websites as a whole.
The main app would probably let you choose between blocklists etc. I might need some help parsing the blocklist syntax (I'm on IRC and you can twitter DM @Schemetrical). Any suggestions welcome
I'm playing around with the new JSON blocking syntax, and all I know is that since the blocklist is relatively large, it would be a lot more efficient to parse the current list syntax into a JSON on the fly. It would also be pretty great if someone could open up a repo on ABP's org so I can throw some code up there.
Anyways, its pretty promising and I hope I can help make this work. So far blocking works fine, I've managed to block elements, urls (scripts), and some websites as a whole.
The main app would probably let you choose between blocklists etc. I might need some help parsing the blocklist syntax (I'm on IRC and you can twitter DM @Schemetrical). Any suggestions welcome