I know both AdGuard and 1Blocker offer system-wide blocking by creating a sinkhole for blacklisted domains by creating a local VPN profile, but that's of no use to me since I currently use IVPN as my daily-driver and they already have decent ad/tracker blocking DNS using the venerable oisd (full version) blocklist, which basically contains most of the domains employed for the in-app tracker blocking that AdGuard DNS or 1Blocker's Firewall promise.

Lifetime sub price for AdGuard's 'Pro' features is cheaper, and even the free version of AdGuard gives you more blocking than 1Blocker.įwiw, I'm only looking at the Safari blocking features. AdGuard with a decent set of filters still blocks nasty disqus or wordpress comments, but at least I can troll Ars comments section normally.ģ. 1Blocker (and many other blockers) have this weird 'categories based' blocking structure that ends up blocking comments on Ars articles or replies on reddit frontends (like ) unless I spend a lot of time creating whitelist rules. AdGuard's blocking works like blockers I'm used to. abp syntax, which update regularly (or you can force update) 1Blocker seems to download their own rules and I have no idea what sources they employ.Ģ. AdGuard on the other hand seems to be more favoured by the privacy and open source crowd, though its iOS and Mac following seems to be small compared to its Windows and Android following.Ĭurrently I'm leaning on AdGuard because ġ. From what I've read, along with personal experience using past versions of both, 1Blocker seems to be favoured by the uber Apple-centric folk, from those used to paying $100/yr for calendar apps to the Apple blogger/twitter/medium circle-jerkers. So what's the most powerful ad/tracker/content blocker for iOS/iPadOS these days? My research (basically just drunken goog/ddg/reddit-fu) points to a final showdown between 1Blocker vs AdGuard. It's 2021 now and with Safari supporting web extensions and all that newfangled jazz, I figure this topic could use another look.

I know there's probably some thread somewhere in this forum about iOS/Safari content blockers, but wager that was started when it was new on iOS, back when big bezels and Penny-Farthings were still in fashion.

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