Ad Blocker for Safari — Bolt

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I used to use Bolt a lot! Now, it takes forever to load up lists when launched and it can’t block all domain names. For instance, I wanted to block a .quest domain and it won’t let me. So, pop ups from that domain exist. I’d like to be able to blacklist anything I choose. Not what Bolt wants me to choose.

Hello. Since you don’t have any option to contact you via your website, I’m writing on this platform. I see you have a whole list of updates but they do not contain any information as to what was rue updates contained or improved on. The explanation says nothing, just general small updates here. Minor update there. Your team is relatively new with this being your second app and it being the first one in some thing that everybody uses, i.e. Safari. Therefore, your reputation has not been established I know I do not trust simply just because you say you don’t collect any information. It’s something that would have been earn, and with the fact that you’re being so completely vague about what each update includes that doesn’t look good. Perhaps you can be transparent. Thank you. I will change this review once communication improves and safety becomes obvious as a primary concern.

I am always skeptical about ad blockers because a lot don’t work. I like how you don’t seem to be part of a team or corporation. This ad blocker works like it’s developed to and I like how it’s simplistic and almost “underdeveloped”. Makes me trust that you work on the things that matter and not to make the app pretty. Thanks.

This extension was the best for a while for me, but it no longer does what it’s intended to do, I have no idea how or why, but the ads are back

All of a sudden, it has stopped updating my lists.

Does not work

Works well only iPhone, but has no effect on the FB ads on my iPad. IOS 15, iPad 7th gen.

I was looking for a simple ad blocker that worked with safari. This was the first app to that blocked YouTube ads without any hassles. I was finally able to drop chrome and get back to safari!

I tried the app and it’s great that it’s open source and it does work. However, in my experience (on an iPhone 12 Pro Max), even with some (not all) filter lists turned on and enabled in Safari, browsing the web slowed down noticeably. This has not been the case with another open source as blocker available on the App Store, which leads me to believe it is specific to Bolt. Ostensibly, Bolt is pretty heavy on the CPU, which slows down page loading. Would be great if this was improved, as otherwise this is a great app.