![]() Last month, Apple posted a series of short how-to videos to prepare customers for iOS 11. Punish Website is available on the App Store for $2.99. It’s easy to paint all websites with the same anti-advertising brush, but the reality is that advertising is still a big part of how sites earn money and there’s a strong case for a more considered and deliberate approach, which Punish enables. I’m glad to see that Khanov developed Punish. Managing your list is simple, but I’d also like to see a Cancel button added to the extension for those circumstances where you have second thoughts about invoking the blocker. To take a site off your blacklist, simply open the app and swipe left to reveal a delete button or use the Edit button. ![]() After you tap the Done button, the site reloads free of distractions. The extension UI will appear to confirm you want to add the site to your blacklist. When you come across a site that crosses your tolerance line for website clutter, all you need to do is tap the share icon in Safari and pick Punish. It’s primarily an action extension that’s invoked from the system share sheet. ![]() Our reader wanted to come at the problem from the other direction with a content blocker that only blocks elements on blacklisted sites. You can whitelist sites, but the default behavior is to block content unless instructed otherwise. However 1Blocker, like its competitors, blocks ads, comments, and other content based on an elaborate system of rules. Khanov is the developer behind 1Blocker, a popular iOS content blocker that we’ve covered in the past. That prompted developer Salavat Khanov to step in and fill the gap with a new app called Punish Website. We did some research and still came up empty, which we reported back to MacStories Weekly readers. Several weeks ago we got a question from a Club MacStories member wanting to know if any of us had come across a blacklist-only content blocker.
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