questions about ABP for iOS

[bsolar]

It's available now.

It's possible to freely toggle acceptable ads, but I cannot find a way to further customise the filtering, e.g. by configuring EasyList subscriptions. There is basically no option but the acceptable ads toggle. Also, white space remains where the ads were supposed to be.

Are these limitations going to be addressed in a future release?

[Doctor9fan]

You can turn off acceptable ads by clicking/touching the little icon at the bottom of the screen - looks like crossed spammers/tools.

[p_hill]

We will definitively look into providing more filtering options, especially language-specific lists. However, we are extremely limited by iOS, since we may not exceed 50,000 filters - the regular Easylist already has more. Also, there is no element collapsing for blocked elements, which leads to the observed white spaces. We could of course add explicit hiding filters for those, but then we get into the max filters issue again. All in all, Apple left us with pretty limited capabilities. Our Adblock Browser in comparison can make full use of our extension and the filter lists. If it's feasible for you to use that instead of Safari, it might be a better shot.

[bsolar]

Well, I suspected Apple's limitations were in part to blame. I hope that given the huge popularity of adblockers they'll revise these limitations.

Thank you for your support.

[trljbrlj]

Not work on iPhone 4S (iOS 9.02)?

[mapx]

Not work on iPhone 4S (iOS 9.02)?

details about what does not work ?
example pages / sites ?

[trljbrlj]

Can not be installed, says: Cannot Download, This app od not compatible with your device.

Thank You

[p_hill]

One more limitation Apple chose to put in place: content blockers are only available for 64 bit devices, means >=iPhone 5s.

[WideMasta]

One more limitation Apple chose to put in place: content blockers are only available for 64 bit devices, means >=iPhone 5s.

Okay, but why does the install from your AdBlock Browser work on iPad 4 Retina and the AdBlock Plus won't??? It's not good!

[p_hill]

Adblock Browser does not use the content blocking mechanism provided by Apple but the full Adblock Plus extension code just as in Desktop versions. That way, we are not limited by Apple's restrictions to 64 bit devices.

[Athirn]

ABP for iOS doesn't work with russian and ukrainian ads yet. For example take a look on meta.ua web portal or fishki.net — all banners are there though ABP is on. Would you fix that please?

[lewisje]

There's a limit of 50,000 filters, so ABP for iOS doesn't even use the full base EasyList.

[Athirn]

So is there any hope to get all ads blocked? A few other ad blockers work fine with all kinds of banners, but I'd like to have ABP on all my devices.

[p_hill]

We are already looking into ways to optimize the list of blocking rules like combining many in one to give us some room for more filters. Once we were able to do that, we will look into offering country-specific lists as well.

[Athirn]

That's great, thanks!