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Some folks still raw dog the net? Wrap that shit up
How do I do that on iPhone?
You can do that by selling it and buying an Android.
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I use a Safari extension called Purify. It’s in the App Store. Works pretty well for me.
(I also use a pi-hole at home)
Similar for me - 1Blocker and pi-hole at home. Then I also VPN to my home when outside to continue the pi-hole filter.
I also use iCloud relay with non-precise location.
Set your DNS to next DNS https://nextdns.io
Edit: Ah sorry didn’t realize this was already answered.
You answered better and thanks for the link. Is this a free service?
I’m using adguard but I’ve heard the owners are possibly unscrupulous.
That is a free service and I really like it make sure you read their website basically when you sign up which requires no login it’ll give you a unique dns entry to use as your DNS
The reason I like this one is it’s not just ad blocking it fixing a bunch of anti-tracking and other features
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The iCondom
I’m sorry? lol
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Like a contact lens?
Can you install Firefox?
In Firefox you should be able to install the add-on “uBlock origin”. No additional tweaking of settings required.
With Firefox you can browse the web including pages like YouTube.
At least, you can change your DNS to one who blocks ads. It’s not as efficient as uBlock origin and system wide on Android. But, it’s better than nothing.
As a quick and easy alternative, you can set it to automatically open sites in reader mode. I’ve been trying that lately and it definitely helps although also mixed results where sites block part of their content from reader mode.
With automatic reader mode, I click to hide reader much less often than I formerly clicked to enable it
AdGuard works well.
Ghostery addon for safari is solid.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
AdGuard still works well but there are other safari extensions. At home I use eero ad blocking which works well for a maintenance free blocker.
I use FireFox on my phone.
Unlike when your friends or parents might raw dog, you can put that adblock condom on their computers for them.
I dislike the fact that “ads” can also include crapware being injected into my computer (viruses, tracking cookies, mysterious scripts, etc).
If you had nothing to hide, you wouldn’t mind Trojans! /s
Is this still really a thing? I remember getting some viruses from ads in the very early days of the internet, like late 90s / early 2000s, but can’t remember getting anything in at least the last ten years.
It’s currently late and I am on my phone, so I can’t research this too well, but for example this thread and official Microsoft link discusses th Adrozek malware which injects you with unwanted ads and information directly from your browser.
Sure, it’s not a virus in the older sense of the term where someone either burns your drive or takes over your computer and locks you out asking for a ransom, but it’s still piloting you unsuspectingly and you don’t want it.
The internet is unusable without an adblocker… I recommend uBlock Origin and Pihole.
uBlock Origin at a minimum. But I would suggest a privacy focused browser. Librewolf, Mulvad or even Brave. Browsers leak so much information about you it is easy for sites to fingerprint and track you even with an ad blocker.
I know Librewolf is working on their DNS leakage (last section on privacytests.org), but they also allow you to select a privacy focused DNS server which is nice when you’re not on a network you own, so you can’t run PiHole.
Is there a big advantage to a pihole in addition to ublock?
I thought the text said “stop AIDS” but practically the same thing.
I used to not run an ad block. I figured the ads didn’t bother me so why bother?
Then I encountered a banner ad that screamed “HELLOOOOOOOOOO” anytime the mouse went over it and I couldn’t download an ad blocker fast enough.
Advertising companies will do anything they can to annoy the shit out of you, then act like people running ad blockers are the problem.
I was fine with unobtrusive ads, I was fine with a minute of ads before a YouTube video. But it got so bad it was constantly interrupting everything. Also want to know what’s extremely unpleasant? Political ads calling for a moral panic against you or taking bigotry against you as a general assumption. I’m not watching that bullshit. My life is better without ads
I once watched a 60 minute ad because I wondered (what would a 60min ad even be about) and I can’t remember
Ads are just pure negative. There was even one study that calculated this as a direct financial negative, although unfortunately in narrow circumstances: it was calculated that for mobile users in the US, paying for the data transferred to display the ad was more expensive than what the site owner got paid for including it on his site.
That’s is indeed a pure negative - for the users. The site and the the mobile carrier both got paid.
Yes yes, capitalism good.
It’s a necessity. The internet really is unusable without it. Pop-up ads, long unskippable video ads, annoying shovelware scam ads, etc etc.
overlooking the biggest issue, the malware/virus ads.
True!
If the ads are unobtrusive and interesting, and not clearly based on harvested personal data, I wouldn’t mind.
Unfoorrrtunately…
yeah, the internet without an ad blocker seems mostly unusable.
It’s eye bleach
Theres people who dont use ad blocker? Do they also not use the internet?
Had a front end dev who didn’t use adblocker.
Sometimes I temporarily disable mine to make sure it’s not silently breaking any of my layout or anything, but not using one at all? That’s bonkers.
Don’t a majority of them also use Chrome? Because they’re going to find that their adblockers are less and less effective.
That’s yet another reason to use a DNS as blocker, and not let your browser use DNS over https.
I haven’t done it myself yet, but I figure that sooner or later I’ll need to update my router to block all outbound DNS that doesn’t go through my DNS ad blocker. Some devices try to use their own hardcoded DNS to get around them…
I mean… you could just use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Works great.
DNS blocking is about the only way to block ads & tracking on things like streaming devices. You can’t install Firefox or uBlock on an Apple TV for example. You can block ads on many of the apps on the Apple TV as well as all the telemetry they try to collect with a well configured pi-hole and selected DNS blocklists.
True, but using a computer with an adblocker and a second gen Chromecast (which you don’t need Chrome for) also eliminates that.
DNS-based ad blocking is unfortunately much less effective. It’s still better than nothing though, that’s for sure.
A multi-layered approach is the best approach. My pi-hole blocks advertising domains, malware domains, etc. That helps tremendously with all the “smart” devices that include DVRs, streaming devices, etc. where you can’t install something like ublock. I also make sure something like ublock is installed wherever possible.
Yup. I’ve got DNS, IP lists, zenarmor, and browser extensions
Why shouldn’t you let your browser use DNS over HTTPS?
Because then it can bypass your ad-blocking DNS
DNS over HTTPS was a great idea for privacy if left in your hands, but immediately ran into the reality of intrusive advertising
Because dns ad blocking is typically done with something like dnsmasq which doesn’t support DNS over HTTPS, though it’s easy enough to setup a resolver/forwarder that does
No, it’s another reason to use Firefox. A Brower that is not owned and managed by an advertisement company.
I doubt these numbers. Almost nobody I know uses one on mobile
Then there’s those of us who uninstalled the YouTube app and installed Kiwi so we can install the uBlock Origin chrome plug-in 😅
Firefox has plug-ins available out of the box on Android, including uBlock Origin.
Kiwi is a browser with plug-in support out of the box but it’s always good to have options, thanks :)
Oh, I seem to have misinterpreted your message then. That’s pretty neat
I remember the good ol days when the ads would lag up the loading of the page
Now they all load first and cover the entire content of the page because screw usability
Looking at you, every news outlet site ever
and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters
Leopards, face etc
Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).
I’m surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build “better” profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they’ll share your data with >800 “partners”.
Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?
Apple is just less used
Apple
- doesn’t have advertising as a core part of their business
- is using privacy as a selling point.
- pretty much every release has privacy features.
Yes I trust them more than most.
They don’t need adv, users are locked inside their platform - so they protect their users from the outside while they use them from the inside (in the end not much different from the others)
