Roadblock - Content Blocker

Control your web browsing experience with Roadblock, a powerful content blocker for Safari on iOS and macOS. Roadblock blocks annoying and unwanted content, protects your privacy and security, improves webpage load time, and reduces browsing data usage.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	Free	Obied Corner	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Roadblock is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Profiles and settings sync seamlessly across all devices.

Content Blocking
• Block ads, pop-ups, tracking, social buttons and widgets, images, videos, scripts, fonts, and more
• Comprehensive and optimized built-in rules

Custom Rules
• Create and manage your own rules
• Block or whitelist resources and websites
• Hide webpage elements
• Strip cookies from web requests
• Force the loading of websites and resources over a secure connection (https)
• Specify filters using a simple and an intuitive filter format.
• Search, import, and share custom rules

Blocker Profiles
• Create and manage multiple profiles with different settings
• Activate profiles on demand
• Use different profiles on different devices
• Import and duplicate profiles
• Share profiles with family and friends

Safari Extensions
• Change the active profile and add custom rules via Safari's action button

Blocker Extension
• Modern blocker extension that blocks content with minimal overhead and high performance
• Doesn't have access to your browsing activities and can't send any information about what was blocked back to the app

iCloud Sync
• Keeps profiles and settings up-to-date across all your devices (iPhone, iPad, and Mac)
• Lets you access your profiles and settings from any device

Please note that you can only enable the "Block Ads" setting. An in-app purchase is required to enable other settings or use iCloud Sync.

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"the simplicity and power of profiles and the ability to create custom block and hide rules visually, make Roadblock my new favorite OS X content blocker"
- MacStories

"The app’s intuitive interface lets you exclude ads and content through a set of simple rules, which you can either specify manually or create interactively from any website"
- Macworld

"If you are having trouble focusing on the content on your favorite websites because it is full of distracting ads, you should consider opting for this efficient solution"
- AptGadget

Reviews

Doesn’t work.
Texan Madness

Doesn’t block websites when inputted and doesn’t handle regex. Waste of $2. This is after turning it off and on in the safari content blocker settings several times. Update: Looks like it’s silently failing to the regular expression I’m giving it. Works when removed. The regex support is why I paid for the app. /(old|www).reddit.com(?:\/r\/[a-z-0-9]+)?(?:\/)?(?![a-z-0-9/])/g Update: Marking it 5 stars to be kind to the developer. Updating the regex to be Safari API compatible fixed this but I ended up going to 1Blocker so I haven’t been able to test it here.

Be gone vile autoplaying videos of the nether realm
UniBroW

I’ve been looking for something like this forever, while it completely kills videos in Safari the trader is worth it for me, I can’t stand autoplaying videos...they are up there with ads. Thank you so much, you have no idea how this has changed using the iPad to browse for me now

Love it
april12345678

Thank goodness for this app. It’s the only app of its kind that I have found. I would only love to see a few more features, such as a local log, as well as being able to block IP addresses and specific ports (in addition to domains/websites). Ain’t no reason my phone should be making an ssh connection.

Blocks all videos
D.Rudder

Makes no attempt at blocking specifically pesky auto play videos, just takes the nuclear approach and blocks all videos. When I want to turn the video blocking functionality off, it does not gracefully do so.

Exactly what I needed.
Zzzzzzzz090

There are a couple of websites I frequent which have autoplay videos — either promos or ads — on every single page. I made custom rules to block media from those two domains, and poof, no more videos on those sites. (Note that this blocks ALL video from a site, not just ads or whatnot, but multiple profiles make it possible to change between rule sets when blocking is not needed.) Easy to understand interface for intermediate users, options are plentiful and straightforward. Well worth the purchase.

Missing one feature
Alexander Labrie

I use Roadblock to block all cookies by default and manually whitelist certain sites. One feature that’s missing is a shortcut in Safari to quickly allow a website. Purify which I also use has a feature like this. Otherwise, works great.

refund
Tomonethousand

i want my refund it dosent let me conncet to the settings and as soon as i bought the $2 thing the restore purchases went away!

Deceitful
Amber9572

I would be fine with this if it said on the tin it was 1.99, but no where does it say it costs to use. Don’t hide the price, developers! It’s rude and drives away would-be customers

Scam app
bigattck

Does not block YouTube ads, Reddit or Imgur apm banner ads. It is a scam that tricks people into buying the app fake features. Nothing works, not even custom rules.

Best Content Blocker available!
dj3w3ll1

This Content Blocker is by far the best I have used. I have tested the other major three, including the one that was removed by the developer. This one is simple, and makes browsing super fast while on my iPhone. This Content Blocker needs more attention, and more users need to try it. Simply the best.