Blokada iOS not blocking ads

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Here’s something regarding Instagram:

Ads on social sites and in apps are not blocked

If you use Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or any other social app/site, you might see ads are not filtered. Advertisements on different social sites are usually provided from the same source from where you access the content you want to see. An ad blocker like Blokada cannot distinguish what is the wanted and unwanted content. It is due to the technology our app uses to block ads: it filters hostname resolution and cannot decide if that is used for advertisement or to provide real content. If y…

And here are some additional ideas:

Blokada configuration to block social media and ads

Hi everyone, If you want to block all kinds of social media domains and related ads, this can be achieved using a host list. I use the Social host file by Energized. This Host list is already available in the Blokada’s Host lists menu by default. This host list efficiently blocks all social media websites and apps. The only caveat is it might block an social media app/website that you might need e.g. for me it blocked LinkedIn. Here the mighty Blokada comes to our rescue, you can manually al…