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If you don't dont see any additional value, then chose choose one of the free ad blocking options.

One of the nice things for developers working in the Apple ecosystem is that users are willing to support well crafted software.

Although, sometimes you do run into developers as selfless as Gorhill who still craft excellent software.



Don't you have to pay money to host your app there in the first place which is why there is so few good, free applications?

Also: what would be "additional value" in an adblocker? Either it works or it doesn't.


> Also: what would be "additional value" in an adblocker? Either it works or it doesn't.

uBlock has over 13k commits, include just 15 minutes ago right now.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commits/master/


Well, what do you think makes them work or not? A lot of constant work.


The restrictions on iOS content blockers mean that it's not possible to add value, it's just basic competence to apply pre-existing filter lists maintained by someone else.

Gorhill's browser extensions are great, have actual features. This isn't possible in iOS.




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