OK thanks to ESPN.com and all its clutter I answered my two questions.
1. It looks like no additional setup for Crystal is required after enabling it in Settings > Safari.
2. Nope, the blocking is not carried over to Chrome. 
Edit: Thinking about this more, this is very self serving of Apple
-Basically forces various browser users to switch to Safari (Browsing the internet on the iPhone has become a pop-over ad nightmare).
-Forces advertisement companies to use iAd which is not blocked by these extensions.
I know it does take effect for browser-popups in apps that are using the newer APIs (like Twitteriffic, for example). I'm not sure if there will be a way to enable it in the other embed APIs, but AFAIK it isn't available in UIWebView or WKWebView as of now (which is what Chrome embeds, I assume).
If anyone has a great (or bad) experience with a particular content blocker, please share. Ad-blocking on iOS is like a dream come true, now I just need to find the one(s) that work best for me.
I wish the adblockers would also block within Tweetbot app. Most links are opened there and pages are just unreadable because of the ads.
Read the comment about Peace using the ghostery database. That's one thing I am not that fond of either. Because Ghostery plays both sides basically. But I like Marco Arment so bought it right away. Maybe some seconds thoughts popping up now.
I wish the adblockers would also block within Tweetbot app. Most links are opened there and pages are just unreadable because of the ads.
They work in Twitterrific, which has already updated to use the new web view in IOS9. With Peace that ends up being pretty sweet... Twitter links are usable again.
Sparhawk wrote:I wish the adblockers would also block within Tweetbot app. Most links are opened there and pages are just unreadable because of the ads.
They work in Twitterrific, which has already updated to use the new web view in IOS9. With Peace that ends up being pretty sweet... Twitter links are usable again.
Mmmm ok, well hopefully Tweetbot will get to that soon as well 
Aaaaannndddd Marco Arment pulled Peace app of the market: 'Just doesn’t feel good'
Peace required that all ads be treated the same — all-or-nothing enforcement for decisions that aren’t black and white. This approach is too blunt, and Ghostery and I have both decided that it doesn’t serve our goals or beliefs well enough. If we’re going to effect positive change overall, a more nuanced, complex approach is required than what I can bring in a simple iOS app.
I will go for a refund, but only because there won't be any support.
Marco recommends to get Purify or Crystal (I got Purify, it has more options than Crystal (no options)).
I grabbed Crystal while it was free. It seems to work pretty well but has no options whatsoever. I might buy another one eventually that has white-lists and some configuration toggles.
I installed Blockr yesterday—toggles for ads, tracking, media, and cookie banners, plus it has white-listing.
Also, since other IOS browsers have to pretty much be re-skinned Safari, does the blocking carry over to them too?
Apple made an updated version of their WebKit rendering engine available to developers in iOS 9. The new engine supports content blockers, and obviously Safari itself uses the new engine, but most other iOS browsers are still using the old engine. Those that switch to the new engine will pick up support for blockers along with it. Presumably Apple will eventually make the new engine compulsory, but at the moment most apps that use WebKit haven't switched yet.
EvilDead wrote:Also, since other IOS browsers have to pretty much be re-skinned Safari, does the blocking carry over to them too?
Apple made an updated version of their WebKit rendering engine available to developers in iOS 9. The new engine supports content blockers, and obviously Safari itself uses the new engine, but most other iOS browsers are still using the old engine. Those that switch to the new engine will pick up support for blockers along with it. Presumably Apple will eventually make the new engine compulsory, but at the moment most apps that use WebKit haven't switched yet.
I'll go,back to Chrome if they were implement this. Chrome was always frustrating because it's always missed reader view, and now ad blockers.
How had I forgotten this thread existed?
I just discovered that content filtering isn't enabled on all devices running iOS 9 -- just iPhone 5S/iPad Air/iPad mini 2 and newer.
So now I have Crystal on my phone, but will still have to put up with ads on my tablet. Ah, well.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple, effective, non-horrible mp3 player for the iphone. I'm looking for a player that lets me bypass the itunes/apple music ecosystem.
I tried mp3playerfree and I thought it might be perfect, but it chokes on large libraries. It's a real shame because it had a great uploading interface.
Vox looked promising, but it's just another alternative for accessing the itunes library.
VLC isn't really set up for handling albums.
EvilDead wrote:Also, since other IOS browsers have to pretty much be re-skinned Safari, does the blocking carry over to them too?
Apple made an updated version of their WebKit rendering engine available to developers in iOS 9. The new engine supports content blockers, and obviously Safari itself uses the new engine, but most other iOS browsers are still using the old engine. Those that switch to the new engine will pick up support for blockers along with it. Presumably Apple will eventually make the new engine compulsory, but at the moment most apps that use WebKit haven't switched yet.
Oh sweet. That is good news.
Crystal ad blocker sold out to the ad companies, taking money to not block ads.
Maybe ask for a refund if you don't like this sort of practice.
I am pretty happy with Purify so far.
I started using this free ad blocker last week called "add blocker for safari browser" (sea foam Green icon) it's been fantastic. The only problem is that there is no white list option at the moment. Also if you do a google search and you click the very first link, which may be the site you want but has a Google click ad, it won't load. You need to scroll down a little bit more to that site but without the Google clock ad.
I started using this free ad blocker last week called "add blocker for safari browser" (sea foam Green icon) it's been fantastic. The only problem is that there is no white list option at the moment. Also if you do a google search and you click the very first link, which may be the site you want but has a Google click ad, it won't load. You need to scroll down a little bit more to that site but without the Google clock ad.
It's maybe stupid but I was always trying not to click the very first Google link that is marked as an ad.
BTW who is still using Google as their search engine? It's so 2000s DuckDuckGo is the new thing.
It's maybe stupid but I was always trying not to click the very first Google link that is marked as an ad.
BTW who is still using Google as their search engine? It's so 2000s
I use duckduckgo as my default but I find myself going to google more and more. For example I wanted to find a clip from the Seahawks - Lions game yesterday and DDG gives me ancient stuff from years ago. When google does that I just use the pulldown menu to only show results from the last 24 hours.
I have never even heard of DuckDuckgo...
I have never even heard of DuckDuckgo...
old man 
Jumped on it as soon I knew it existed. Doesn't harvest data like google does.
That's for me the main thing.
Well, I just changed it to be my default search. I will give it a try for a week but from what I'm reading the search is not as great. I guess that's to be expected.
Well, I just changed it to be my default search. I will give it a try for a week but from what I'm reading the search is not as great. I guess that's to be expected.
I have mixed results as well. But not bad either. Haven't used google for a while, but if I really can't find something, well, I will look there.
Yeah, DDG is often not quite as accurate as Google(even though it gives som interesting results sometimes). A lot of times I use it with !bang search, i.e. I write "Seahawks - Lions !gweek" and it gives me Google results from the past week, in a private Google search. Best of both worlds!
I tried searching "Delerat" on there, and for the first time I got some people with it as a last name. I also found my 2004 5-star review of Trailer Park Boys, so there's that.
An odd thing happening to older apps that are not being sold anymore.
Seems Apple has removed them as well and so it's not available for download anymore.
Despite people having paid for the app and should still be there.
Curious how this one work out. I think everything will go back as it used to be.
I've actually had several paid-for apps disappear over a year or two ago that don't show up on my purchased list. I figured that was the apple stance and just started keeping an ever-growing off-line backup of all my apps. Now I discover it's not supposed to work that way...
Don't know why this is a surprise to anyone. My old iPod classic apps disappeared years ago. 
Does anyone think hackers are going to knock this crap off?
Apple would cut down on a lot of this just by giving people the option of copying game files and saves to their PC's without iCloud nonsense or the obtuseness that is an iTunes back-up.
Ever since the latest iOS update, I can't delete apps from my Ipad. It's an Ipad Air 2. When I hold an icon down and start to get the "wiggle" nothing happens when I press the x button. I've tried deleting several different apps, all with the same result. Anyone else have this problem?
Ever since the latest iOS update, I can't delete apps from my Ipad. It's an Ipad Air 2. When I hold an icon down and start to get the "wiggle" nothing happens when I press the x button. I've tried deleting several different apps, all with the same result. Anyone else have this problem?
I have an iPad mini 2 and so far so good.
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