Re: Ad-stopper

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.ipad
Subject	Re: Ad-stopper
Date	2026-01-04 20:24 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2026-01-03, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
> I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and more 
> pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they repeat 
> themselves while you scrabble to end them.
> Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function 
> until you switch it on.
> You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser.
>
> Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

1Blocker, AdGuard, and a few others have whole-device DNS ad blocking,
but it's never going to be able to stop all in-app ads due to
limitations of DNS blocking. Still, they are better than nothing.

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JR

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