Better
By Ind.ie
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Description
“I love better, I use it on my phone and I’m very happy to see it on the mac!”–Five star app store review.
Better makes the web safer, lighter, and faster.
Better is a web privacy tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It protects you from tracking and behavioural advertising on the web by enforcing the principles of the Ethical Design Manifesto (ind.ie/ethical-design).
Better is developed and curated by Ind.ie – that’s Laura, Aral, and Osky – we’re a tiny two-person-and-one-husky social enterprise striving for social justice in the digital age. (Osky doesn’t code much.)
Better is free as in freedom, transparent, and open.
Thank you for helping us make the web better.
Highlights:
• Blocks trackers and behavioural advertising.
• We maintain our own block list based on our own web crawls to identify and block the most prevalent trackers. This makes Better’s block list lightweight and effective.
• Improves the readability of popular web sites.
• Easily contact us about sites that don’t play well with Better so we can fix it for everyone. (You can also add exceptions to turn Better off for certain sites until we’ve had a chance to fix things.)
• Teaches you about trackers with encyclopedia-like entries.
• Spotlights the worst offenders… Did you know that the worst site we found on the web had 172 trackers? Better blocks them all and makes that site 4× lighter and 15.8× faster!
• Blocks blocker blockers (try saying that quickly a few times). Read our open letter to Wired in the app or on our web site to find out why blocking blockers puts people at risk on the web.
• It’s open… anyone can help make Better even better.
What people are saying about Better:
— ‘Fantastic blocker with a rational, ethical approach to privacy and monetization in this digital age.’
— ‘I snapped this up after reading the open letter to Wired (such a pet peeve) but I stayed for the awesome.’
— ‘Thanks for such an incredibly simple app to make the web just that bit better!’
— ‘It's good to see such nice people stand up to tracking and malvertising. This app does everything it promises to do and sets a new gold standard in content blockers. Spend a few bucks to take back the web from disrespectful business models. You won't regret it.’
What's New in Version 2017.1
Thank you for all your feedback and great reviews. IMPORTANT: please launch the app after updating.
In this version:
• New: Full accessibility support.
• New: Exceptions feature lets you turn Better off for specific sites. Your exceptions list is synced across all your devices (iOS and macOS) via iCloud.
• New: Use the Email Us feature on the Exceptions screen to alert us if a particular site does not play nice with Better so we can fix it for everyone.
• New: Unified interface and experience across iOS and macOS.
• Improved: Performance of the interface and data loading.
• Fixed: No longer displays erroneous “Better is not active” notifications on lock screen and when the screensaver is active.
• Fixed: Only notifies you when a data update is actually downloaded, not every time it checks for an update.
• Fixed: Bug that could cause data updates to hang.
• Removed: Statistics section. This has been replaced with the new Exceptions section.
• Lots of other miscellaneous bug fixes and little improvements.
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Customer Reviews
Far superior than other tracking cookie blockers, worth the $4.99
So glad they have a mac version. I bought within 10 minutes of finding out. I have the iPad verson and am so happy the Better team is keeping the tracking filth and scum off my devices. I had tried blocking these tracking cookies with with firewalls and cookie blockers for years. Finally there is an app that is doing the heavy lifting. Thank you.
It blocks and so much more
This is not your run-of-the-mill adblocker. It does everything the big name adblockers do but personalized. They care about the overall user experience and will work behind-the-scenes if a webpage doesn’t display correctly. Don’t believe me - send them an email and within 24 hours they will send back a thoughtful response that is not auto-generated. However the real reason you should support this app is because they are committed to privacy and believe it is a human right to not be tracked and catalogued by big corportations. With folks like these working and developing for us, we gotta support them! Love you guys over at Ind.ie!
- $4.99
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Mar 28, 2017
- Version: 2017.1
- Size: 31.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Article 12
- © 2016-2017 Article 12
Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor