{"id":359,"date":"2015-09-19T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-04-08T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T08:10:19","slug":"2015919ad-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Ad blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to these in ios9 \u2014 some sites are not useable because of awful ads. As I scroll down the page, more ads load at the top and I retreat up the page. Vertigo inducing and unpleasant.<br \/>\nSo what should I use?<br \/>\n1Blocker which has good reviews was not on the UK App Store. Crystal seemed good and surprise, was free for the first comers. It just works!<br \/>\nShortly after, I noticed Peace from Marco Arment. I like him and his apps. The cost of \u00a32.29 was well worth it. It did prove to be rather vigorous so that TheTimes.co.uk did not load, but I was able to whitelist this site and ads here are ok.<br \/>\nThen Marco gets cold feet and pulls the app. I did get a refund \u2014 the first time ever. So,the app was purged.<br \/>\nToday, &amp; 79p later I also have Blockr. More stuff I can fine tune on this app than Crystal. It too is sometimes too blunt, but these are the opening shots in a new war and there is time for finesse to develop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to these in ios9 \u2014 some sites are not useable because of awful ads. As I scroll down the page, more ads load at the top and I retreat up the page. Vertigo inducing and unpleasant. So what should I use? 1Blocker which has good reviews was not on the UK App Store. Crystal seemed good and surprise, was free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}