LELeicaLatte·Mar 16, 2018Submission
Ask HN: Donate/Sponsor indie iOS developer's WWDC ticket
1 points · Open discussionkrishkumar
BlockParty
Objective-C2015–2018
krishkumar / BlockParty
BlockParty
Ad Blocker App for iOS, macOS
6Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
795GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Ad Blocker App for iOS, macOS
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-08-22 18:56:58 UTC to 2018-03-16 18:13:23 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesContent blockers seem to work on 32-bit devices if you compile for them:
"Yes, but I'd guess it's an arbitrary limitation—at least it seems to be for A6 devices.
BlockParty works perfectly on my iPhone 5C and apparently on @wadetregaskis' iPhone 5, both of which are 32 bit A6 (and not officially supported). I get all the relevant menus, and it does block ads (even the huge easylist conversion works, albeit poorly)." [1]
1: https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty/issues/9#issuecomme...
In Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOSI suspect it's because there are too many to pay attention to in these short articles. There's 21 listed at http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/09/16/a-list-of-content-bloc... and it's probably not a complete list. Purity, Peace, Crystal and later 1Blocker were all day-one appearances, so they got the most coverage, including here on HN.
There's even a long list of open source ones -- and having just looked into this now, I'm thinking of switching to one of these:
https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
https://github.com/yene/CBlocker
https://github.com/saagarjha/OpenAdblock (will work on iPhone 5 and 5C, it claims)
https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block (for Safari on OS X)
https://github.com/jlnr/SansFonts (kills web fonts on iOS)
In Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the TestI was looking forward to it actually, but very disappointed that it's not supported on my iPhone or iPad. Update: just installed BlockParty on both via XCode and very pleased.
https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
In Ask HN: iOS 9 is out with its ad-blocker support. How do you feel about that?Ask Apple :)
See this tweet:
https://twitter.com/awfulben/status/638510622167052288
Apparently, content blockers work on 32-bit CPUs, but Apple is restricting them on the store to 64-bit only. So you can go the BlockParty + EasyList route:
https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
It works very well.
In Crystal – iOS 9 ad blockerApple apparently restricted this due to performance limitations.
I have an iPhone 5, and found a way to get around this restriction by building a content blocker myself. It's pretty easy, just a list of JSON rules. You can use this project as an example: https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty
I am running my own content blocker on my iPhone 5, and it works nicely.
Note however, that webpages do seem to load slower than when a content blocker is not installed (this is why Apple limited it to 64-bit devices)
In The Apple iOS 9 Review