adblockfast

We just (last week) launched an Android ad blocker with Samsung that doesn’t require rooting your device or switching to another browser (our app works with Samsung Internet, which is the default browser on most of their devices): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rocketship... The ad blocker is also open source: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

Technical merit? I don't really know. This is based on the open source tracker list from Disconnect (disconnect.me). FWIW, I was never into paying for an ad-blocker on iOS since that comes with its pitfalls. I have tried a couple of other free ones, and I did like Adblock Fast [1], the one I was using until Focus by Firefox and the one I still have. It's open source and is available for Chrome (not iOS), Opera (not iOS) and Safari (iOS 9). I'd suggest reading through the GitHub page to see some stats as well as the philosophy (of not making money or compromising it with acceptable ads). [2] [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock-fast/id1032930802 [2]: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

Yes, see the benchmarks and last FAQ on http://adblockfast.com/. Edit: Yes to Firefox as well, see https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/issues/23 for timeline.

As the original developer of Disconnect, on which Focus’s blocking is said to be based, I (with my development team) created a new, open-source ad blocker for Chrome, Opera, and iOS called Adblock Fast (http://adblockfast.com/ and https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast on GitHub) because I think Disconnect became abandonware after I left the project a year and a half ago – there was one commit made to Disconnect in 2015 (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commits/master).

Open source, free, and no “acceptable” ads!: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock-fast/id1032930802 I’m one of the devs and here’s the code: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

Understood, but the title got edited a couple times – could you edit back to something more neutral? (E.g., at one point the title was plain, old “Show HN: Adblock Fast”.) There are three things at the top of page that are brand new and people can try out (plus we sent almost 100 copies of the iOS app so far to people who signed up this morning): * https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nneejgmhfoecfeoffa... * https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblock-fast/ * https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

The seven rules: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/blob/master/op... Are these regular expressions machine-compiled?