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  • It’s okay

    Back when when they first allowed ad blockers on the App Store, I used Purify. That was the best! Never saw an ad. Now, Purify was taken off the App Store so I had to look for a replacement. BlockBear seemed great as I was already familiar with TunnelBear. Super easy to set up, works instantly! My only complaint is that ads still seem to pop up. Definitely a major reduction, but I wished ALL the ads were gone, like my previous ad blocker.
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  • Does mostly work well

    Great at stopping the two scourges of auto-play videos, and of sudden screen-covering panels that ask you to subscribe whilst you’re in middle of reading their article.

    But I wish it also more successfully halted iFrames or other floating panels on the sides. Nothing worse to my eyes than to be reading and scrolling, but have a vertical tower of ‘next’ or ‘social’ icons hold fast to the side of the screen.

    Otherwise a solid product, and a nice name. Go Blockbear!
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  • Love all your apps

    The apps them selves are so simple and I’ve come to love block bear TunnelBear and remembear
  • Support for Chrome on IOS?

    Works great with Safari, makes browsing a lot easier. But can it, or will it support chrome?
  • This is great!!!!!!!!

    Five ratings
    Does not cost money
    And very accurate
    Usually people make it $2.99 and they didn’t get good ratings or reviews. Keep being fantastic
  • No Longer Blocking Ads

    I’ve noticed performance has changed over use with this app. At first it did a great job of blocking ads. Especially really annoying pop up ads. Now it’s almost as if I don’t even have the app installed. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Verified Safari settings shows it’s enabled. I’m still getting ads. Not sure why it went from great to bad?
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  • Very simple, and effective

    This app hits a balance that not enough do. It gives you just enough options, while staying very simple. I similarly liked Firefox Focus too, but noticed that it would sometimes leave empty boxes where ads were blocked, and didn't allow any whitelisting, at least not from Safari. Blockbear covers both of these things! I just wish they had it for Mac Safari too, I'll try out Nope for that.
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  • Blockbear

    Blockbear is much improved than before but it still doesn’t block 100% of the ads that it’s supposed to take care of. I still use the app because it’s protection from all types of malware and other viruses. It’s a good app that can be better.
  • Excellent for Safari

    Excellent at blocking ads on safari, though it blocked a link I opened from email from shazam, which was odd because it was a confirmation-type link for account creation.
    I hope in the future this could extend to other apps without using a vpn, because I’d rather not lose any speed just to stop capitalism from trying to brainwashing me
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  • Works Great for Safari

    This is exactly what I need. I can’t stand getting ads on mobile browsers, and this does a great job of blocking the ads from coming through. I’ve had to whitelist a few sites in order to be able to log in to my account, but there haven’t been any issues so far that I couldn’t easily fix. Highly recommend.
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