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Some folks still raw dog the net? Wrap that shit up
tbh it feels like most people I know use chrome or even edge without any extensions
even without darkreader!
How do I do that on iPhone?
You can do that by selling it and buying an Android.
“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.
Some VPNs like Mullvad actually have an option in their app to block ads, gambling stuff, etc.
They don’t catch everything, but work pretty well.
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
The iCondom
I’m sorry? lol
It’s a condom for your i
Like a contact lens?
Sir, this is a
Wendy’siCream shop
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 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.
AdGuard works well.
Ghostery addon for safari is solid.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
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).
Many parts of the Internet has become functionally unusable without one. And given online advertising’s history as a vector for malware, as blockers are just the sensible choice.
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.
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.
If the ads are unobtrusive and interesting, and not clearly based on harvested personal data, I wouldn’t mind.
Unfoorrrtunately…
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!
yeah, the internet without an ad blocker seems mostly unusable.
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
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.
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
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
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.
People themselves have turned into ads since ads themselves don’t do their job.
Look at influencers.
Instagram used to be fun for someone to share their journey, now it’s ad…influencer…double ad…Triple influencer…Another ad…a real person sharing their journey…55 more influencer ads mixed with 29 actual ads.
Oh and the occasional OF girl who managed to flash some puss without it getting taken down.
I love when i bought something…(i assume) google thinks it’s a great idea to advertise that exact combination of products from the exact webshop on the next website i visit.
How much did tiktok ruin google’s brain to make them think that is going to be effective marketing?
Mankind truly is on the way down.
and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters
Leopards, face etc
