Umbra - Ad Blocker for Safari Browser, Best Free Content & Ads Block Extension Reviews – Page 2
4/5 rating based on 48 reviews. Read all reviews for Umbra - Ad Blocker for Safari Browser, Best Free Content & Ads Block Extension for iPhone.
Umbra - Ad Blocker for Safari Browser, Best Free Content & Ads Block Extension is free iOS app published by MOBOTAP INC.
Best I've looked at of the free ones.
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I loaded 2 ad intensive sites and looked at the content blocking ability of each of the below list. Criteria were eliminating ads, page load speed and page's ability to render seemlessly. Adblock by MoboTap: Best. Did a good job on all criteria. Clear: Also very good to excellent. Nautilus: Very good. AdBlocker by icodesign: Missed some ads, let animated ads animate, difficulty rendering pages at times. Ad Blocker by Lei Wang: As above. 1Blocker: Pretty much useless. Allows ads through, allows animated ads. Page rendering issues and resulting slow loading times. Stop Ad: Same as above.
More Beef, Less Filling
LateApp
Great! Works as advertised and the performance increase can be remarkable, not to mention the nicer page flows. I've noticed a couple issues clicking on an ad I actually wanted that was visible on Google, and a Video I wanted to watch at the bottom of a tech site page. Both were visible but the Google link led to and empty page and the video did not start. Still this is a great, it really saves time and makes my phone and tablet much more enjoyable to use. Especially the phone since it does not have room or the processing power for all those crap ads. We are all safer with out all this data being collected also.
Just right
Paleo Schnauzer
I feel like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Some adblockers are too wimpy. Lots of annoyances get through. Or they only allow a small amount of a page to display. Grrr slow. Then there are apps like weblock which seems to hate IOS 9 and freezes up the entire iPad until you have smoke coming out your ears in frustration. This app however does what it is supposed to do. I like it so much that I may get the paid version. I used weblock right up to iOS 9 and it became impossible to use the device at all. If they don't release an update I'm done with them and sticking with adblocker.
Works As Advertised (ironically)
jbram63
Awesome app. Nicely cleans up websites. No more annoying adverts for things you don't need. Get the articles and photos cleanly (much like Apple's reading view). Can be considered immoral since the advertisers won't make money, but since this app is free, there's no problem! On a side note, if people are paying to see less adverts (or none at all) on websites, then those advertising companies must be doing advertising very incorrectly. Maybe now they'll do something different than view your cookies and bombard you with adverts for previously searched items.
Yes
Jim VA Bch
"If it fits......wear it." This ad blocker fits me just fine. Great value and easy to use. Gives you desktop site and load without content blocker options by touching refresh arrow in upper right.... And it's FREE.
Ok app.
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This app only block ads and works great, but there are a lot of adblock apps with tracker, protect privacy, social buttons, scripts, etc..., out there. I hope you will add some cool features for your app soon.