If you're getting terrible battery life on your iPhone, it's not because of iOS.

[Steve121178]

What about for mac? anything easy like Mozilla Firefox focus on iOS setup wise?

Can’t be bothered going through a thousand settings on a ad blocker/content blocker on a mac.

Wipr just works. All you need to do is install it & enable the extensions on Safari. That's it.

Firefox Focus isn't available on Mac, but the best ad/content blocker on desktop Firefox/Chrome is uBlock Origin as it's so lightweight. You can obviously choose to whitelist certain sites and uBlock Origin is as customisable as you want it to be. Or you just install it and it just works by blocking out the rubbish.

 

[Ifti]

Macrumors removed from my browser favorites on iPhone......

 

[LFC2020]

Wipr just works. All you need to do is install it & enable the extensions on Safari. That's it.

Firefox Focus isn't available on Mac, but the best ad/content blocker on desktop Firefox/Chrome is uBlock Origin as it's so lightweight. You can obviously choose to whitelist certain sites and uBlock Origin is as customisable as you want it to be. Or you just install it and it just works by blocking out the rubbish.

Are these ad blockers/content blockers safe?
Don’t they all collect your data?

 

[LFC2020]

Macrumors removed from my browser favorites on iPhone......

They’re working on a fix, hang in there 🥺

 

[ericwn]

Mind blown I thought Apple was degrading my battery in 14.6 trying to get me to upgrade. But now as I look back I realize my iPP 12.9 4th generation and XS max only had excessive battery drain/heated up while on MR.

It’s always easy to blame Apple for some three do ourselves

 

[Steve121178]

Are these ad blockers/content blockers safe?
Don’t they all collect your data?

I am sure some do, but Wipr & uBlock Origin are just browser extensions. You don't have an account tied to them.

Obviously goes without saying that the extension needs to know the webpage you are visiting in order for it to block the content but they do not farm & sell your data.

 

[YanniDepp]

I've got a Raspberry Pi running as a network DNS / DHCP server and it blocks ads transparently on all my devices.
I've just switched it off to take a look at MacRumors and see if I could give any pointers.

Wow, is that what the web looks like these days?!? I remember when web sites had small banners dotted around the page. Now it's big animated ads that follow you around, change every 20 seconds, and make dozens of silent web calls in the background.

There's a reason your batteries are draining and it's not the ads themselves. There's a script running on the page called 'prebid.min.js'. Looks like it's something that dynamically changes the ads on the page depending on which advertiser's willing to pay more.

It's making calls to a server in the background every 30 seconds, passing data to it, getting data back, then replacing all the ads on the page based on what it gets back. It's talking to a ton of servers and getting data from here there and everywhere to show ads on the page.

There are other ad loading and tracking scripts on the page, but prebid is by far the biggest offender in terms of opening connections in the background and sending/receiving data via AJAX. As I'm leaving the page open to type this, the number of connections is just going up and up and up.

 

[icanhazmac]

I've got a Raspberry Pi running as a network DNS / DHCP server and it blocks ads transparently on all my devices.

PiHole FTW!

 

[LFC2020]

Macrumors removed from my browser favorites on iPhone......

I'll be joining you, we shouldn't have to use a content blocker or ad blocker so we can use a forum, we still haven't heard if they've fixed the issue or if they're planning on making the site/forum more efficient, at least cut down on the ads, stop destroying people batteries.

 

[Tsepz]

Interesting, looks like it might be the ads that are causing the issues. 🤔 what usage are you ending up with on your iPhone when you call it a day?

We were having scheduled power cuts last week so I would top up sometimes just to make sure I am good in case there is an issue, but on Sunday when they ended I was doing about 9hours SOT with about 26% battery left

 

[Tsepz]

I use Tapatalk - no issues at all.

I personally stopped using Tapatalk as of last month, it was having too many issues so I cancelled my monthly subscription, forum by forum began failing to load, it almost felt like the app was falling apart for the last few months.

 

[LFC2020]

Any update on when we can expect to have this site/forum ads battery drain heat issues fix?

Great forum, but I've stopped using this site/forum on my iPhone/iPad due to the severe battery drain and heat issues.

Be nice to get a update from staff on when we'll be getting a fix.

 

[LFC2020]

Macrumors removed from my browser favorites on iPhone......

I'm also logging out on my Mac, lost 3% in 5 minutes while using these forums, won't be back until they fix this site/forums or rebuild it and make it more efficient.

 

[svish]

Any update on when we can expect to have this site/forum ads battery drain heat issues fix?

Great forum, but I've stopped using this site/forum on my iPhone/iPad due to the severe battery drain and heat issues.

Be nice to get a update from staff on when we'll be getting a fix.

I'm also logging out on my Mac, lost 3% in 5 minutes while using these forums, won't be back until they fix this site/forums or rebuild it and make it more efficient.

Don't know when that will be . Come back soon

 

[LFC2020]

So I guess they ain't doing nothing about the heat issues and battery drain problems on this site/forum.

Be nice to get some feedback on the issue, or are we just burying the thread in here and hope people forget about it. 🤦‍♂️

 

[arn]

The ad network has been testing but it’s hard to reproduce.

If someone here can reliably make it happen, if you can record a session where it happens, it would help track it down.

Not sure how long a video that would require to show excess drain, but if you can do it, Dropbox or iCloud it to me: arn@normalkid.com