Weblock: adblock & proxy 4+
Best ad blocker since 2012
AdBlock Labs
Designed for iPad
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- £1.99
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Description
• #1 ad blocking solution for iOS, available since 2012
• Over 750 000 app downloads worldwide
• No in-app purchases, no subscription. Simple one-time payment
• Top Utility ranked in all App Stores around the world
• Over 1000+ carefully crafted filters
• Easy setup in under 1 minute with detailed tutorial
• Now with built-in Safari Content Blocker for better web ad protection
Weblock allows you to control how your device fetches online content. Easily manage PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) script and route different connections through different proxy servers. Weblock can make your device download ads (banners and popups), stats and user tracking, scripts or images through a proxy server you pick. It also allows you to use a different proxy for specific websites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, social widgets from websites. You can even define your own content filters. With Weblock you can control proxy for basically any network resource! This way you can choose not to reveal your real IP to different services, limit advanced ad targeting and protect your privacy.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You're responsible for selecting a proxy server that allows you to download content you wish to download. We DO NOT provide a proxy service. Using a bad proxy server (like 127.0.0.1:8021) might result in some resources being blocked. You can control your proxy settings selectively with Weblock. Contact our support if you need help choosing right proxy server or setting up Weblock on your device.
Here are some situations in which Weblock might come in handy:
• Fetch ads through a proxy server you choose. Protect your privacy and prevent ad servers from knowing your real IP address and tracking you.
• Disable majority of ads on websites you visit on your iOS device! Weblock supports all major web browsers: Safari, Chrome, Mercury and others (browsers redirecting web traffic through third-party servers like Puffin Browser or Opera Mini are not be supported).
• Easily remove all native Facebook widgets and plugins (Like buttons, comments, etc.) on sites you visit - simply disable Facebook plugins in Weblock! Do the same for Twitter, Google+ and other social media.
• Stop annoying Tapatalk popups, nagging you to download forum browsing app on every visit.
• Take control of someone else's device - you can preconfigure any iOS device to control it with your Weblock app. Block or redirect any content, anytime, directly from your own device.
• Your predefined filters and custom rules can be synced between all your iOS devices using iCloud.
• If you wish to block something else, you can create your own rules and filters. You can block any URL (with regular expressions), domain or IP address. Don't know how? Let us know - we're here for you.
• You can also use Weblock's redirect feature to emulate '/etc/hosts' entries for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This might be useful for web and app developers to pin domains to different IP addresses.
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Need help setting up Weblock? Contact our support directly through the app.
What’s New
Version 5.3
- added new support contact options
- fixes for iOS 13 and iOS 14
Ratings and Reviews
Not blocking everything anymore?
This was always fantastic - simply cut out all the ads in everything. Something seems to have changed, however. It’s still blocking most ads, but several are visible in apps that weren’t showing ads previously (due to successful blocking by this app). There’s no update to the ad servers to block, maybe there should be? It’s saved a huge amount of data that isn’t wasted on showing stupid ads, but some are sneaking through. Maybe this will be fixed in the next update, since I’m still recommending this to others.
Works fine
I don’t understand why people are having problems. I’ve used this for some years now, OS 10, 11 12 and currently OS14. I just don’t see ads except of course those within TV programs, ITV / SKY etc.
No problems, reliable and effective. Happy to recommend 😊
Doesn’t work
I thought this app would be my saviour for Google Chrome to block ads. How wrong I was. Firstly it is overly complicated for what it does. It needs a better user interface with simple setup to enable all users to use it. Having to understand what a proxy is and what filters to use is not for the faint hearted.
Worse still, when it is all setup it doesn’t block all the ads. I noticed some were missing but were replaced with a blank space on the page rather than getting rid of it altogether. It certainly didn’t get rid of ads in games or other apps.
Overall, a rather frustrating experience and have requested a refund as it does not do what it says in the description.
App Privacy
The developer, AdBlock Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- AdBlock Labs Sp. z o. o.
- Size
- 50.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2012-2023 AdBlock Labs Sp. z o. o.
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.