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I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and more pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they repeat themselves while you scrabble to end them.
Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function
until you switch it on.
You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser.

Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

Ed
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Op 3-1-2026 om 17:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and more pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they repeat themselves while you scrabble to end them.
Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function
until you switch it on.
You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser.

Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

Ed

On android I can use a vpn to get rid of most ads.
I don't mind banner ads, but if an app forces you to (partially) watch
an ad, that really pisses me off. Especially since they can randomly
force you to watch for 5 seconds or sometimes even 30 seconds or more.

I think in the near future, once AI is able to code stuff, we should
finally get rid of these idiotic ads.

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sobriquet wrote:

Op 3-1-2026 om 17:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and
more pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they
repeat themselves while you scrabble to end them.
Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function
until you switch it on.
You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser.

Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

Ed

On android I can use a vpn to get rid of most ads.
I don't mind banner ads, but if an app forces you to (partially) watch
an ad, that really pisses me off. Especially since they can randomly
force you to watch for 5 seconds or sometimes even 30 seconds or more.

I think in the near future, once AI is able to code stuff, we should
finally get rid of these idiotic ads.

On the free games on an iPad the ads last for minutes.
I suppose that's what the writers have to do to finance their apps and
get them out there. So I doubt they'll stomach any ad-blocker that
removes them for long; or, at least, their powerful and competent
patrons won't.

Ed
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Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

sobriquet wrote:

Op 3-1-2026 om 17:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and
more pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they
repeat themselves while you scrabble to end them.
Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function
until you switch it on.
You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser. >>>
Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

Ed

On android I can use a vpn to get rid of most ads.
I don't mind banner ads, but if an app forces you to (partially) watch
an ad, that really pisses me off. Especially since they can randomly
force you to watch for 5 seconds or sometimes even 30 seconds or more.

I think in the near future, once AI is able to code stuff, we should
finally get rid of these idiotic ads.

On the free games on an iPad the ads last for minutes.
I suppose that's what the writers have to do to finance their apps and
get them out there. So I doubt they'll stomach any ad-blocker that
removes them for long; or, at least, their powerful and competent
patrons won't.

Yeah, this is a balance between being annoying enough to persuade to buy
the ad-free version and putting you off playing the game at all.

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On 2026-01-03, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

I love playing games on my iPad, but the ads are becoming more and more pervasive; some of them are like a maze to get out of, and they repeat themselves while you scrabble to end them.
Switching off wifi used to help, but more and more refuse to function
until you switch it on.
You can, of course, usually pay for an ad-free version, but I'm a miser.

Has anybody found a good ad-stopper for an iPad Pro?

1Blocker, AdGuard, and a few others have whole-device DNS ad blocking,
but it's never going to be able to stop all in-app ads due to
limitations of DNS blocking. Still, they are better than nothing.
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JR
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