April 2020 • Macworld 15from Facebook, Twitter,
and many other sites. If
you use social sharing
routinely, leaving this
category disabled
makes sense, but many
people prefer to not
trust what information
leaks about their
behaviour to third-party
networks. (Some sites
build social sharing in
such a way that they don’t pass your details along,
and would be unaffected.)
1Blocker labels many of its individual rules with
the name of the site or service and offers a search
option to find them. But it’s cumbersome to use,
because the app doesn’t group these rules into
something like subcategories. Twitter, for instance,
has 1,050 rules in the Block Widgets category, and
each rule has to be flipped off one at a time. In the
version tested, disabling a rule caused the search
selection to disappear showing all rules in the
category. It would be a thankless and unappetizing
task to proceed.
The drop-down 1Blocker
button reveals which items
were blocked on a given
page and can optionally
show the count as a badge