Reviews for Adblock Browser: Fast & Secure

Edit: Still has major problems showing full screen video correctly after several years. Generally great app, very useful for easier browsing. I would have given 5 stars, but it seems to struggle to show videos properly, especially YouTube. The image shifts to the left, cutting off maybe 5-10% of the video. Also, I cannot find a clear way to leave feedback or communicate with the developer.

I used to love this app, but lately, it has gotten really glitchy. When I open the app to type in a url, the previous web page gets reloaded, which interrupts my typing by making the keyboard disappear. If it did this once, it wouldn't be a huge issue, but it does this a couple times. Imagine typing the url in and it bugs out 2 or 3 times and you have retype the url that many times to finally get to where you want.

This app used to work great at loading sites without ads (albeit slowly), but recently I've noticed that all the sites I try to open with adblock browser return an error to the likes of "can't communicate with server" or some such nonsense. I don't know what happened, but a browser that won't load websites at all is useless to me. I'll keep trying for a bit longer before I give up and uninstall...

I originally gave 3 stars last year and I kept trying other Ad Blockers. NOW! I have a Samsung S10+, close to 1.5 TB of storage, cache is clear. No viruses or malate etc etc etc. This has been getting worse and worse as the UI just faltered. NOW when you watch a video in portrait mode half of the video is cut off. Full screen landscape? About 1/5 of the bottom is gone. If you try to line up the video it gets smaller and smaller on the top and bottom. This USED to be so good.

All of the features of AdBlock Plus, right on your smartphone! I've been using this service for years and when YouTube started increasing the number of ads on videos as well as adding intrusive ones within the videos, it was time for a change. I was also paying for YouTube Music because it was ad-free and had all of my music. Not anymore! The subscription is canceled and AdBlock Browser is my new go-to.

I believe this app is abandoned. Since I last downloaded it, the original Firefox had multiple updates, but this app hasn't been updated for 1.5 years. I have been experiencing multiple issues with the app. It still works good enough, but for how long? I loved this app, because it's hard finding extensions for the Firefox app, and the ad blocker continues to work perfectly. However, I am forced to find an alternative.

I found this Browser when I was looking for a better one than the one I had. So far it is deffinately an improvement. Loads everything efficiently and I think faster. Does keep a tally of adds blocked, reminds me when I'm still in incognito mode. It works well enough for me to abandon my other browsers which has an added benefit of streamlining my browsing. A good app.

While slow, it was a fine browser to use for blocking ads before the major update. However, it is now slower, clunkier, and freezes more often than the previous version. Also, I really hate the new layout. This update was complete unnecessary in my opinion. I am going to either roll back to a previous version or just switch to a different browser altogether.

I've long been a fan of the Adblock Plus desktop plugin and use it on all of the browsers on my laptop. So, when I saw this new Adblock Browser for Android on the Play Store - created by the same developers who created the desktop plugin - I became very excited and installed it on my phone immediately. Unfortunately, just a short time later I uninstalled it. The problem: This browser currently has no provision for importing bookmarks from other browsers, like Chrome and Edge. Since I have a very extensive collection of bookmarks that I use regularly, on both Chrome and Edge, this browser is, again unfortunately, useless to me, and the lack of a bookmark import function is what has caused my low rating. If the developers do add a feature to allow the importing of bookmarks from other browsers, I will then install this app on my phone once again, because, aside from this shortcoming (which is a major one) the browser functions very well.

Great... when it works.. Half the time it works just fine. Blocks the ads you don't want to see. The other half of the time it forget that it's supposed to block ads, so that ALL of them show up. Crashes when you try to open it, or just freezes and won't open at all. The only solution I've found to the freezing/freaking problems is to uninstall it, then redownload it. I've done this enough, I'm sick of it. Going to find a browser that works.

It's good at blocking ads on youtube, but it has some problems. First off, you can't view community posts on the mobile version. You have to go to the desktop mode in order to view them. The big problem however is that on some videos the video skips ahead after a while but the audio stays intact. This makes youtube videos pretty darn unwatchable. I would be forced to refresh or even exit out of the video but even that doesn't work sometimes. Overall a pretty good app and works with live streams.

I've been using adblock browser for years and I was quite happy with it. The new version 2 seemed, oddly, to not be blocking any ads, but a couple days later the ads are gone again. So I guess all's well. The new version certainly seems to be faster and more responsive than the old one, so that's nice. But I'm not too happy about the note that Google might get my personal info from version 2. That gives me some pause.

Fantastic!! I love(facetiously) how sites want to charge for an ad free version. I would never pay to access a website without ads. This app enables me to enjoy reading online without constant pop-ups and other irritating ad features. It pretty much blocks EVERYTHING!! It is frustrating that sites can block your access while using ad-blocker, but there are plenty of other sites to use in their place when it happens.

I like to read and visit sites with tons of advertisements on the sides. Not always the type you want to see or accidentally click on while scrolling. This browser gets rid of that problem! Occasional pop-ups get through, but it blocks most things, way more than other browsers I tried. Love it! Also, I have WAAAY too many tabs open and it still works great. 💪

At first it seemed to work and block ads, even on YouTube. Then last week or the week before we noticed it started playing a Walmart ad at the beginning, but then the rest of the video was ad free. We we just watching some videos and it now plays ads between every video and you don't even have the option to skip. Now we are wondering if it got sensitive log in information from us. Either way, it's not working and we are deleting the app.

It was great for a while, but recently, I don't know if it was an update or what, if I have the browser pulled up, but my phone in standby mode for a while (around 15 minutes) it just randomly pulls up a new tab. It wouldn't even be a big deal if I didn't have over 100 tabs open because I'm bouncing between different things I'm reading. (No new tabs have been opened in the last month. This just started about 2 weeks ago.) Until the issue is resolved, I'll be leaving it at 1 star.

I'm not saying that the app is perfect, but just the fact that this browser blocks all the ads on places like YouTube these days makes me feel obligated to give this app 5 stars!!! so many places have pushed so many ads, without caring or not if it's disruptive to the content that they're advertising in, that if I do end up ever being forced to watch an advertisement on anything these days I just make a mental note never to buy that product being advertised and I'm not alone in that decision.

It's impossible to say how much Adblock has improved my commuting experience. The ads when driving are incredibly annoying. To be able to listen to music or podcasts uninterrupted is a total gift! No pop-ups, no money grab, just a great app that does what it says, seamlessly well! Many thanks for this great program!!! 🙏

I've been using Adblock for over a year, maybe two or more? It's my default browser. I love the customization and the option to allow non-intrusive ads to support content creators, while defaulting to ad blocking on all other web sites. With one click you can temporarily pause ad blocking or resume. You can set site exceptions. My only complaint is that setting your default search engine is restrained to a (small) preset selection. I would like to see an option to add our own choices. Peace. 💚

I really liked the app and it helps a lot, but it became too expensive for my budget, so I had to cancel the subscription. They then debited my account $127.00! I quickly notified support of the issue, they quickly reimbursed me through PayPal, back to my bank. Great, huh? Well, then today I check my bank and there is another $127 debit from Adblock, overdrawing my account a second time, this time going straight through my bank bypassing the PayPal app!! OMG! Really?