I was showing my mom a new recipe on my iPhone, and right in the middle, a full-screen pop-up ad of some horned up dating sim game hijacked the moment. I get that some apps solely rely on ads for revenue but idgaf if you’re showing these two bit ads on my whole screen, I’m gonna do my utter best to block that shit.

I’m feeling super petty and I need a good ad blocker, but I don’t even know if there are those for ios(?). I’ve looked up some older threads on here and I’ve seen Adguard and Wipr recommended with some mixed reviews.

Idk if these are good though, and if I’m missing some other option? Ideally something not taxing enough that makes my phone beg for its life. Please help me feel vindicated

  • g-o-u-l-a@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Try nextdns.io

    It’s an adblocker at the dns level. I’ve used it for 2-3 years now. Every once in a while I’ll click an ad in search results and it throws up a message about not being able to connect. If I want to actually go there, I’ll set dns back to default and then do what I need and turn it back on. I’d rather that than all the damn ads. It’s not 100%, due to all the different kinds of ads, but it’s the best I’ve found. It also very customizable if you want to spend the time tweaking it.

    • _stungy@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I use 1Blocker too but noticed that I can only open some apps if it’s disabled which is annoying because there’s an app I use for work sometimes 3-4 times a day and have to go in and manually disable it in the app and turn the vpn off in the iPhone settings. Haven’t noticed much of a difference with the blocker since getting it tho

  • cerebrix@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m having a good experience with Arc Browser’s built in ad blocking on both desktop and ios

  • Leftover-Waffle@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wipr is king. Maybe not as robust as other offerings like a custom NextDNS blocklist or AdGuard, but it is the best set it and forget it blocker.

  • DiscMatteo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    NextDNS seems to work great since it’s fully customiseable. It can block ads (except very few apps like YouTube & Spotify, no DNS blockers can block those), it can block certain domains, and trackers.

  • hariztek@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use Surfshark VPN it has an ad blocker functionality as well and it also blocks in app ads