# Ad Protection — user reviews > 82 indexed App Store user reviews of Ad Protection by Lucas Exequiel Di Tomase. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ad-protection/id1554895615/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ad-protection/id1554895615.md ## What do users think of Ad Protection? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - ✅ Effective ad blocking in Safari and apps - ⚡ Fast and efficient performance - 🔒 Privacy protection without VPN overhead - 👍 User-friendly interface (after recent improvements) - 💚 Works well on older devices - 🌐 Blocks multiple ad types (banners, contextual, analytics) **Cons** - 💸 Switched from one-time purchase to subscription model - 🔄 Reduced functionality after updates - ❌ No longer blocks 100% of ads (degraded to 80%) - 😞 Changed from DNS to device VPN with reduced effectiveness - 🚫 Frequent app name changes causing confusion - ⚠️ Ads appearing despite legacy plan promises - 🤔 Suspicious UI with unclear settings - 📉 Multiple similar apps from same developer - 🔐 Access to passwords and credit card information (privacy concern) **Commonly reported bugs** - App stops working after updates - Ads still appear despite active protection - Settings screen is non-functional/unclickable - Download fails at 75% completion - Cannot update to latest version on older iOS - App crashes or becomes unstable - Restore Purchases/Subscriptions not working properly - Incompatibility with VoiceOver accessibility - Some websites fail to load when app is active **Most requested features** - Restore DNS blocking functionality - Return to 100% ad blocking capability - Improve YouTube and Twitter ad blocking - Better explanation of settings and features - Accessibility support for VoiceOver - Fix video history tracking on YouTube - Clearer UI with meaningful settings ## Newest reviews (10 of 82) ### 3/5 — Không còn chặn 100% qc *2025-04-24, version 15.7* Lúc trước xài ok. Đã mua rồi lại bắt mua tiếp, tự động giảm chất lượng bản cũ. Quá tệ ### 3/5 — Duhok *2025-04-10* Sharafani ### 5/5 — iraq duhok zakho *2025-01-13* iraq duhok zakho **Developer response:** Thank you for your 5-star review! While we're not sure what your message means, we appreciate your support. If you have any feedback or need assistance, feel free to reach out. We're here to help! ### 5/5 — high *2025-01-12* thanks ### 5/5 — Pool *2025-01-12* Poll ### 1/5 — App can no longer be used without paying a subscription *2024-11-17* I was using this app, and it was working perfectly. However, the developer has changed it to a subscription model, and it will no longer work without paying the monthly fee. This is very unprofessional and unethical behavior from the developer. Therefore, I am changing my rating to 1 star. **Developer response:** Hello. If you paid for the older version of this app, please email me. You shouldn’t be asked to pay anything again. My email address is in the support website. ### 1/5 — Ripoff!! *2024-10-14* How many times will you expect your customers to continue to purchase these maliciously turned apps? ### 1/5 — How many times will you expect me to purchase the same app? *2024-10-11* Purchased once. Developer then kills app. Trying to force you to purchase again. Will no longer support this nefarious developer!! **Developer response:** When you buy an app, it’s permanently tied to your Apple account. As long as you don’t change accounts, you won’t have to buy that app again. ### 5/5 — Funktioniert perfekt *2024-09-26, version 10.3* Tolle App und blockiert alle Art von Werbung, auch in Apps ### 1/5 — Scam/bad design *2024-09-02, version 10.0* I don't know if its a scam or a bad UI, but the UI isn’t clickable ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worse with each update. *2025-11-07, version 16.4* The app used to be great. But now it's sadly a shadow of its former self, barely works anymore and seems to get a new app name every other update. Used to be a single in-app purchase but now changed to a subscription model in one of the various 'updates' along the way. However, this has now nuked the apps ability as it seems to have less features than before. This developer seems to have multiple of the same app which seems suspicious. Will be deleting. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — why ads?! *2025-10-30* it says the legacy plan (before subscription plan) gets to keep the original protection but I see ads now! fix it plz! **Developer response:** Hello. Indeed, users who paid for the older version get to keep the same protection as before. You shouldn’t be seeing any ads. Please contact me so I can help you out. My email address is the support website. ### 1/5 — 👎👎 *2025-10-23* What legacy plan? I had this before the subscription plan, and now I'm seeing ads again following the change of the app's name.😔 why you doing this again?! ### 1/5 — Why the weird name? *2025-10-20, version 16.0* Whatever happened to NetAdShield? What is the meaning of the settings screen? It looks suspicious and meaningless. ### 1/5 — Not working *2025-10-19* App not working after update !! **Developer response:** Fixed many updates ago ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2025-05-01, version 15.8* Stopped working ### 1/5 — 80% blocking *2025-04-29* used to blcok 100% now degraded to 80%😔 ### 1/5 — DO NOT TRUST *2025-04-03, version 15.2* I’ve purchased four apps from this dev, paying between $9.99 and $12.99 for each. Now the apps are free, and there's a paywall requiring me to pay for a monthly or annual subscription to access the apps I've already paid for. These types of apps are a dime a dozen in the AppStore—no need to waste time/money or entrust your data with an untrustworthy developer. ### 1/5 — Eine kleine App, aber effektiv. *2025-04-01, version 14.3* Ich benutze diese App schon seit langem und sie hat bisher sehr gut funktioniert. Allerdings funktioniert die App seit den letzten beiden Updates nicht mehr richtig. Es macht keinen Sinn, eine gute App durch ein Update zu verschlechtern. Wenn ein Update notwendig ist, sollten die Entwickler es richtig testen, bevor sie es hochladen. Ich hoffe, die Entwickler werden diese Probleme schnell lösen und die App wird wieder so funktionieren wie zuvor. ### 1/5 — Don’t Update!!! *2024-11-17* Don’t know why this keeps happening with this app, but if you purchased it already, you’re going to have to pay again… unless the dev fixes the Restore Purchases/Subscriptions again. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Am I missing something *2026-02-21* Was one of the best but after recent updates and changing from being a dns to device vpn it is not blocking anything **Developer response:** DNS was restored in version 17.1 and VPN was fixed in version 17.5 ### 5/5 — Ad stop *2025-06-27* Thanks ### 5/5 — 👍👍 *2025-05-06* now back to 100% blocking💚 ### 5/5 — Sipan *2025-04-19* Dusky ### 5/5 — iraq duhok zakho *2025-03-16* iraq duhok zakho ### 5/5 — Ok *2025-03-11, version 13.6* Ok ### 5/5 — YouTube problem *2025-02-09, version 13.2* When activating the application and going to YouTube to watch a video, the video does not appear in the viewing record and when the process is repeated without activating the application, the video appears in the viewing record! Can you fix that? ### 5/5 — Duhok *2025-02-07* Dhuok ### 5/5 — العراق *2025-02-01* العراق ### 5/5 — محمد.زيوكي *2025-01-26, version 12.4* محمد.زيوكي --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*