Silentium — Privacy and Ad Blocker for faster browsing
By Francesco Zerbinati
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Description
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Silentium is no longer actively maintained. We may remotely updates the ad-blocking rules from time to time, but nothing more. Thanks to everyone who bought the app for supporting us.
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Silentium is the best ad blocker for iOS. It makes browsing the web on your iPhone and iPad even more enjoyable by removing annoying ads.
◆ Websites will load up to 4 times faster
◆ Consume less battery and data
◆ No longer let ad networks track you or your browsing
◆ No longer show annoying social media buttons, cookie banners, and more
SAVE YOUR BATTERY AND DATA
Ads can cause pages to load slower, consume more battery, and eat up your data plan. With Silentium, sites will use up to 25% less battery life and up to 50% less of your data plan. This lets you use your data for content you want, not ads.
SECURITY
Silentium also blocks a lot of nasty stuff like malware, tracking services and cookies. Enabling our privacy filter you will make sure that you are always be protected.
WHITE LISTING
We believe in “ethical ad blocking”. Some sites serve tasteful, unobtrusive ads. If you trust and want to support one of these, you can White List it. This will enable ads and scripts on that specific site only.
NOT ONLY AN AD BLOCKER
Silentium provides advanced features like a low traffic mode (that allows you to save even more data), a filter for cookie-law banners (that removes those “this site uses cookies” warnings) and a basic parental control filter (that blocks adult websites).
ALL SYNCED UP
Silentium syncs all your rules and preferences via iCloud so that you will have a consistent experience on all your devices.
WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
We strive to make Silentium the best ad blocker on iOS!
If you have something to say, please get in touch with us via email, info@silentium.xyz, or on Twitter, @silentiumapp
What's New in Version 1.1
Hello everyone, thanks for your great feedback and support!
In this release:
- Browsing is 30% faster than before
- Rules update remotely, no need to update the app to block new ads
- Social media blocker is now integrated within the app (advanced section)
- Remove comments option for Facebook and Disqus
- General bug fixes
By the way, App Store reviews are very helpful to us. If you think Silentium is worthy, would you mind taking a moment to write a nice review? We'd greatly appreciate it.
Customer Reviews
Don't Waste Your Money…Too Many Bugs!
This app breaks the basic functionality of too many websites that function perfectly with other content blockers. I experimentally tried whitelisting the images and scripts on one of those sites (it didn't work), and discovered another serious bug—once a site is added to the whitelist, there appears to be no means to delete it from said list. Using the "Restore Default Configuration" button does not remove it; neither does deleting and reinstalling the entire app. I have permanently uninstalled Silentium from my iPad and will be requesting a refund from Apple.
Most Consistent
This app has been great from the moment I installed it. The interface is simple, but works as advertised and I haven't had any complaints at all. I've tried multiple ad blockers and this has been the best one of them all. The recent update to the app which enables remote updating was a great and handy feature. Keep up the great work!
Terrific!
A great app - have it installed on 2 iPads and 2 phones and it seems to work really well. I like the interface and ease of use, the white list is good if you want to let some things through. Not sure why some people appear to be having issues with it - for me it's perfect.
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- Free
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Sep 30, 2015
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 8.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Francesco Zerbinati
- © Francesco Zerbinati, Francesco Di Lorenzo
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi + Cellular, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, 9.7-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (5th generation), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (5th generation), and iPod touch (6th generation).