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@khaleel-git khaleel-git released this 11 Oct 20:27
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Important

macOS may say "Blockerflow is damaged and can't be opened"

The app is not damaged. Blockerflow for Mac is distributed without an Apple Developer licence, so it is not signed or notarized by Apple, and macOS blocks apps it cannot verify.

After you drag Blockerflow into Applications, open Terminal and run this one command:

xattr -cr /Applications/Blockerflow.app

Then open Blockerflow again. You only need to do this once per install. You can also try right click, then Open, then Open again.

Support: help me get an Apple Developer ID (€99 a year) to sign Blockerflow for macOS and iOS, so it opens without warnings. Donate via PayPal

What is new in 1.0.3

  • Far more web proxies are blocked. 1.0.2 knew 31 web proxy sites and missed others, such as ProxyPal. 1.0.3 knows about 110,000, using the UT1 "redirector" list (Université Toulouse Capitole, CC BY-SA 4.0) on top of my own.
  • Consumer VPN websites are part of that list and are blocked too. Tailscale and OpenVPN are not.
  • As before this follows the Block adult content switch, and your whitelist still wins. If a site you need is blocked by mistake, add it to your whitelist and tell me at hello@khaleel.eu.

Known limit: a proxy that is not in the list yet can still get through. If you find one, add it to your blocklist and tell me.

What came in 1.0.2

  • Web proxy sites are blocked, so an adult site can no longer be opened through one.
  • Links that hide the real site in encoded form (for example ?__pot=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu...) are judged by the site they point to.
  • Secure connections to a bare public IP address are read with the Blockerflow CA certificate so the full address can be judged. An IP address whose certificate your Mac does not trust is passed through untouched.

If you installed an earlier version, turn off Uninstall Protection in Settings first, then drag the new app over the old one.

What is in it

  • System wide filtering through a local proxy, with the same shared blocklists as Android.
  • Blocks adult content, web proxies, piracy sites, Instagram and Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat Spotlight, and closes blocked apps.
  • Accountability partners: Myself, Time Delay, Friend and AI Coach.
  • Focus Mode, a blocklist and whitelist of your own, and Uninstall Protection.
  • Google sign in to sync your settings with the Android app.
  • Tested with Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Orion and Yandex.

Install

Open the .dmg and drag Blockerflow onto Applications. Then follow the notice at the top: the first start needs one confirmation or one Terminal command. Full instructions: https://blockerflow.net/guides/how-to-install-blockerflow-on-mac/

Requirements

macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon or Intel (universal build). Tested on macOS 27.

SHA-256 of the .dmg: 54cb6727a7c087dd982ac322d26129f9bf1bf17020e4134f006f0f160a01c2aa

About the "Source code" files below

Ignore Source code (zip) and Source code (tar.gz). GitHub adds them to every release automatically, and they contain the code of the blockerflow.net website, not the Blockerflow Mac app. The only file you need is Blockerflow-mac-1.0.3.dmg.

If you need the source code of the Blockerflow Mac app, you can request it at hello@khaleel.eu.

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