Adbin — ad blocker for Safari
2026-09-03
Adbin collects nothing about you. No account, no analytics, no advertising identifier. We cannot see which sites you visit — the app is built so that we never could.
The following never leaves your device and is not synced to iCloud.
| Item | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Filter rule lists | Used by Safari and DNS protection to identify ads |
| Blocked and allowed counts | Shown as numbers in the app |
| Recently blocked domains | So you can see what was blocked. Clearable at any time |
| Allowlist, Cleaner rules, your own rules | Settings you chose |
| Diagnostic log | For troubleshooting. Visible only inside the app; never transmitted |
Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Adbin uses the network in exactly two situations. Neither carries anything that identifies you.
Once a day, Adbin fetches public filter lists over HTTPS from EasyList, AdGuard, uBlock Origin filters, malware-filter, pgl.yoyo.org, List-KR, with packaged distributions served from GitHub. As with any web request, those servers see your IP address and the time of the request. We neither receive nor retain that information.
We want to be explicit about this one. With Network Protection on, your device's DNS queries pass through Adbin. Ad domains are blocked on the device and go nowhere. However, queries that are not blocked are forwarded to Cloudflare's encrypted DNS (DNS over HTTPS, 1.1.1.1) — meaning Cloudflare sees the domain names you look up.
Cloudflare's privacy terms apply to those queries; see the Cloudflare Public DNS Resolver privacy policy. We do not see or log them.
Network Protection is optional and off by default. With it off, DNS goes to your carrier or whichever resolver you have configured, exactly as before.
Turning on Network Protection makes iOS ask permission for a VPN configuration, because that is the only way to handle device-wide DNS on iOS. Adbin has no remote VPN server. The tunnel terminates on your device, and only one address — the resolver — is actually routed into it. Everything else takes its normal path and never touches Adbin.
iOS cannot run a VPN and iCloud Private Relay at the same time, so turning on Network Protection turns Private Relay off.
The content blockers hand rule lists to Safari; Safari does the matching. Safari does not tell us what you browse.
The helper extension (Cleaner) reads page content in order to hide elements. That happens entirely on your device; page content is never sent anywhere.
There is nothing to share or sell, because nothing is collected. We have no relationship with ad networks or data brokers.
Adbin collects no personal data, so the same terms apply to every user, children included.
Changes appear on this page with a new date. If how we handle data changes materially, we will say so inside the app as well.