{"id":48335,"date":"2025-07-03T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48335"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:42:11","slug":"magic-lasso-adblock-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/magic-lasso-adblock-5-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Lasso Adblock 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclasso.co\/insights\/app-ad-blocking\/\">Matthew Bickham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.magiclasso.co\/insights\/app-ad-blocking\/\">\n<p>Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 now lets you block ads and trackers <strong>across all apps<\/strong> on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac &mdash; not just in Safari.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&rsquo;re scrolling through social media, playing games, or reading the news (including Apple News), ads are blocked automatically &mdash; creating a cleaner, faster experience across your device.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Many apps secretly track your activity and sell your data to third parties. App Ad Blocking helps shut down these trackers before they load, giving you stronger privacy everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My concern with ad blocking is always that it will accidentally block something that isn&rsquo;t an ad and break a site (or, with the new version, an app). However, in my testing so far, that hasn&rsquo;t happened. For blocking outside of Safari, it uses a network extension, and this currently doesn&rsquo;t support the same fine-grained control as the Safari extension; but, if necessary, you can quickly toggle all of the blocking on\/off from the Magic Lasso Adblock app.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/magic-lasso-third-party-adblock\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/magic-lasso-third-party-adblock\/\">\n<p>After iOS <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/iphone-usability-regressions\/#:~:text=One%20reason%20for%20this%20is%20a%20change%20made%20several%20iOS%20versions%20ago%20to%20recognize%20touches%20more%20immediately.\">began registering taps immediately<\/a>, I found scrolling apps with interstitial ads &mdash; particularly news apps like those from <em>CBC News<\/em> and the <em>New York Times<\/em> &mdash; to be particularly hostile. I would scroll and then, while intending to stop the scroll, often tap on an ad which would send me to Safari. Irritating. Not all ads are blocked in these apps, but enough are that it has improved my news reading.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/17\/psylo-web-browser-1-0\/\">Psylo Web Browser 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/magic-lasso-redesigned\/\">Magic Lasso Redesigned<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/15\/magic-lasso-adblock-3-0\/\">Magic Lasso Adblock 3.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/magic-lasso-adblock-sponsor\/\">Magic Lasso Adblock (Sponsor)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Bickham: Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 now lets you block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac &mdash; not just in Safari. [&#8230;] Whether you&rsquo;re scrolling through social media, playing games, or reading the news (including Apple News), ads are blocked automatically &mdash; creating a cleaner, faster experience across your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-03T23:38:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"947740fa-94fb-450e-a535-ec6bb087801e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-03T23:42:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlHdA-pT7RQ6lNexrsIeAHg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354,1223,279,456,31,2586,26,30,32,2598,2118,1458,2688,355,2246,1456],"class_list":["post-48335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-apple-news","tag-firefox","tag-googlechrome","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-magic-lasso-adblock","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-network-extensions","tag-privacy","tag-safari-extensions","tag-the-new-york-times"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48343,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48335\/revisions\/48343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}