Adblock Fast

@jason sorta like Pando's approach?

@jason I agree with you. Since Apple is supporting it on mobile, its just a matter of time before publishers are changing how they advertise completely. It is way too pushy and everywhere. I completely see why people would want to get ads out of the way, they're too intrusive. Even if I never use ad blockers. Nice product for what it is, though.

@jason Allowing ads to be skipped was a big win for me. I still don't get why so many content providers don't allow that. I'll stick around for an interesting/focused ad around my interests. Let me get on with my day when irrelevant ads hit. Then you have the repetition issue. It's a test of patience seeing the same, non-skippable, ad when I need to refresh the page (sync issues) or when a producer decides to play ads on sites like Twitch. As a consumer I'd love to learn about new things I wasn't aware of. As a builder I suck it up to support these services. As a realist it's hard to blame anyone for wanting to flip something like this on. Someone needs to shake up how this stuff hits us.

@jason Thanks for posting! And for bringing the subject up. Lots and lots of people already use ad blockers … that are technically (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnether...) and ethically (https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...) challenged. We thought ad blocking coming to iOS was a good chance to do better. Speaking of iOS, here’s an iOS 9 explainer gif: http://imgur.com/nRJaDZg

@fighto Okay! The next time we do a benchmarking roundup (although I’d prefer if others took over the public comparing). Fwiw, a uBlock supporter on Hacker News ran a memory test and said uBlock *only* used 70% more memory than Adblock Fast. :-/

@chrismessina Cool, please report back! I’d love to hear what you find in the wild.

@byoogle well, it fails big time on The Pirate Bay. :)

@chrismessina Fails as in misses ads?

@chrismessina as did i. i generally trust PH over everything else. and love the copy. great job @rocketship

@byoogle correct.

@esbvn Red = blocking. Grey = not so much blocking. That's all you need to know ;)

@livejamie No! Unlike Apple, which is adding api explicitly to enable content blocking, Google kicks content blockers out of the Play store. :-(

@byoogle didn't ABP launch on Android just this week?

@byoogle There are plenty of adblock solutions out for rooted android devices. Adaway is the one I currently use.

@ggnall Ah, they appear to have developed their own browser.

@billey_b Where? I do spot an ad in the right-hand column of my news feed that leaked through. Anywhere else?

@byoogle Yes, the one one the right. It was unlucky because the first site I tried still had an add :) but I continue to browse and don't find any other for the moment

@billey_b Cool, ty, I filed a bug: https://github.com/rocketshipapp...