Blocking Safari Ads on iPad?

That you disagree about the extent of the problem or the quality of the tools

It's not that I agree or disagree. You haven't stated any problems. Not having a plethora of tools for iOS does not mean there are security/privacty issues.

However your obtuseness defintely explains the quantity of your posts.

Those are points awarded by other users for good/correct answers, not number of posts.\

But whatever...

Good luck!

We need a way to Bloch all ads, especially in apps.

You block ads in app by purchasing the app.

I have just purchased an Ipad 3 which I like very much. I know nothing about apple products so had to do a lot of searches on how to do things. I was appalled at the number of paid services shown when I queried on how to do something. Everything I saw was, for example, giving me two sentences and then "pay for this web site to get answers" or magazines like Salon which you have to pay for to read further. I was disgusted. The same search on my microsoft windows 7 Internet explorer using google showed none of this crap. And I keep cookies too, but I do have a program that tracks those programs that troll for info on what I am doing" (Symantec)

This ipad safari is a sales machine. and because it is built into the ipad it is the easiest to use. I understant there is an "ad block" app (which of course you pay for). This is the most unpleasant of experiences and I wish someone could tell me if there is a program similar to Symantec that I can use so that I can browse for what I need and use the web for information not for purchasing. Luckily I sit infront of a PC all day so most of my browing is done free from ads.

jcorvan wrote:

I have just purchased an Ipad 3 which I like very much. I know nothing about apple products so had to do a lot of searches on how to do things. I was appalled at the number of paid services shown when I queried on how to do something.

Then you should complain to Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft or whichever search engine you use.

Everything I saw was, for example, giving me two sentences and then "pay for this web site to get answers" or magazines like Salon which you have to pay for to read further.

I see relatively few of these.

Why not simply use one of the other hunderds of thousands of hits you get that do not cost anything?

Luckily I sit infront of a PC all day so most of my browing is done free from ads.

I see just as many/few ads on my iPad as I do on my Windows and Mac computers, which is almost none. There are ads in web pages (at top and sides) and search engines but that kinda goes with the territory.

I never get any pop-ups on anything.

I was not personally attacking Apple or the Ipad product but venting about experiences I have been having that I noticed because they do not happen using other applications. I just have found (and I am not the only one at all) that there are many ads on Safari (and I did read on one of the forums an article from the Wall St Journal on Google's role in this -- but they were given permission).

In the case of the search I referred to, I did look thru several pages and did not find anything that was an actual explanation. Much of the time in other situations, when I search on something, there are ads but there are loads of ehow's, forum responses, articles, etc., but in the cases I was looking for these were not apparent.

I think the problem is an absense of third party applications like symantic which I use on the pc to block most of the things that need to be blocked including spyware. I guess I hoped there would be things like that developed for the IPAD. That is why I had been looking for adBlock for Safari or other such products.

I realize there are other browsers available but Safari is native to the Ipad so I would prefer to use it and to find that when I search on it, I get the same responses as when I search on my pc or on my android droid x phone (which brings up much that is identical with a search on the pc) And I am sorry to add but I must that when I use the browser on the droid x, I do not see the same amount of search results that are ads or if they exist there is a fair amount of other material dealing with the search.

I agree there are no pop-ups and actually this not what I was concerned about. It was the presense in the search results themselves of an inordinate amount of pay for service and other such items rather than articles and blogs and other such things on how to do this and that which one finds all the time. This led me to believe that some special thing was going on here different than in other places where I search (pc and android phone for example)

There is not perfect situation: products from Apple, Microsoft, google, facebook etc. all have strenghts and weaknesses. The third party apps iron out some of these things and people complaining often help too. .

jcorvan wrote:

I was not personally attacking Apple or the Ipad product but venting about experiences

No worries here.

Just explaining that what you mentioned I have not noticed nor read anything about it. Not to say it does not exist.

Have you compared search results with Safari on the iPad vs. the exact same search on other browsers on your PC/Droid (using the same search engine - Bing, Google, Yahoo!)?

Well, I did do the same search on the PC (IE and Google) and found the answer that way. But, every search on the Safari is not filled with ads and I have not done a study yet on this -- and may never, but there are ads and I will need to purchase the app or wait for the add on to be compatible. All of them have ads. I just didn't like not having found the answer to a simple question.

As for Bing. I don't care for it except when I need help with a .NET software problem (I am a programmer using Microsoft products). With Bing I find more solutions than Google. I have not searched for ipad or .net solutions using browser with Droid. I would have too many typo errors with the small keyboard.

I agree with the need to block ads as we are able to do in Firefox with ad block pro.

That is how I surf the web customarily and when using the iPad I am appalled with the crap I am exposed to.

I would also like to find a way to block any post by Chris CA, since it is apparent that Chris does not want us to advance our discussion of how to block ALL OF THE ADVERTISING THAT IT IS PROGRAMMING POSSIBLE TO BLOCK.

Pop-ups, side bars; any and all advertising. A company that provides a browser ought to offer the option.

I'll be looking into other browsers that's Safari to see if I can find what I need.

"I would also like to find a way to block any post by Chris CA"

Start by not going to these discussions.

"since it is apparent that Chris does not want us to advance our discussion"

Dunno where you got the idea I was attempting to do this.

Don't like or agree with my posts? Walk on by. Nothing to see here folks.

Surest way to see my posts is to respond to me.

For those of you who are unaware of what is going with web-tracking and data mining, check out this exposé in the Wall St. Journal. See in particular the article on web-tracking.

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html

Hi, are there any thirds party tools or add-ons that will block all adverts from your browser on an iPad? I have a good one on my iMac called 'Adblock', but it is not available for the iPad beacause Apple has 'closed' the browser to third party development. The only add-on I have found is a jail break add-on with a similar name called 'Adblocker', but I do not want to go down this route unless I cannot find any other solution. I have investigated other browsers for the iPad which offer add-blocking but they all are inferior or do not work!

Ads really spoil my viewing experience especially as regards to on-line newspapers and Facebook, mainly because despite selecting topics of interest to me, they are nearly all totally irelvant verging on spam!

The internet will never make on-line advertising a source of revenue unless they are specifically targeted to the products and firms that interest you. Recent research has shown that Facebook advertising for example is over 90% ineffective!

I would say that ALL internet advertising is over 90% ineffective. It's really a vicious circle. Internet ads can be for stuff without a lot of general appeal (and honestly the impression I have of most of htem is unless I recognize the manufacturer it's a trick or con or scam, and even those i"m not too sure about since google ads are hacked on a daily basis), so people don't click. Advertisors don't understand how come people don't click, so they make their ads louder and brasher and more obnoxious which annoys people (like those ones that literally take over your browser until you watch it all), so they block them, which frustrates advertisors because they just can't comprehend how come folks don't just LOVE their products, so they make them more obnoxious, which promotes more to block them......lather, rinse, repeat.

I had a site that I tried to support by not blocking ads, but once I got a 'you have a virus, click here to get rid of it' malware attack via a hacked google ad, I started blocking them there too. I would try to support the site, but then the page was coded 'can't see the rest til the ad loads', and the ads were so big and on such a slow server it was taking 45-60 seconds for a forum page to load, so blocked those. It's amazing how fast you can surf with ads blocked. the internet just flies.

Can't deny that it's a 'necessary evil' of the internet, but I also can't deny that the irresponsible behavior of your average internet advertisor has discredited themselves.

However.....you gotta consider the other side of the coin. Browsers like Firefox didn't make adblock, third party individuals did. just like third party individuals have written the various dvd ripping softwares. Legitimate companies won't condone or make software that flummoxes another (generally). It would not surprise me at all to consider that Apple, just like Mozilla and other browser writers could have been contacted by reps from various internet advertising companies with a 'don't get in our way, kay?' Just like TV stations work in concert with ad agencies to get ads on your television. Two companies in a partnership, or at least working together and respecting each other.

Internet ad companies are no different than program or app writers. All business partners in a way. Which is why I don't think you'll ever see a safari supported ad blocking plugin - as in coming from Apple, not a third party - any more than you'll see an iTunes supported DVD ripping plugin.

As for my iPad, I just take solace in the fact that it can't run flash so I can avoid most of the most obnoxious and bandwidth sucking ads out there, and hopefully avoid the various malicious ads and malware attacks.

When using the Internet I am constantly getting pop up or ads thrown in my face we really do need a Firefox/chrome style of Adblock plus safari does have on on the windows version and I think unread mac does too so why not for iPad iPhone surely we are customers as well and deserve same products and ad free browsing

I'm afraid having the pop ups doesn't work very well in safari only thing that is 100% is adblocker plus a free tool for windows application such as chrome and safari and Firefox