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Is it open source? If not, I wouldn't trust it.
Chrome isn't open source.
Sorry, I wanted to say it's based on Chromium not Chrome.
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Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#122My number one reason for rooting my phone is blocking ads on a hosts-file level. It also stopped me from being able to play pokemon go, which I assume is for the best.
A non-root way: DNS66 via F-Droid.
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I use Netguard ( https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard ) and found it to be better polished than DNS66, check it out if you're interested, I'm a happy user.
I also use this and prefer it to DNS66 because I can use a hosts file rather than just changing the DNS server. Both work well though. Oh, and both are open source!
When I look at it in F-Droid I see: the upstream source code is not entirely free. What does that mean?
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#124Or you can set it up on a free instance of GCE. The author doesn't get affiliate fees though.
It's already been mentioned that the egress limit is 1 GB.
At $0.12 per GB, he would have to do more than 20 GB of DNS queries on his phone to reach $2.50 / month.
Also, my comment about using GCE was first, so it wasn't already mentioned.
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#125Can someone tells me the est. bandwidth traffic per month on such setup?
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Why not just use Firefox with uBlock? Or do you use a lot of free apps with ads that don't offer a pay for no ads option?
not-op here, but your question made me wonder: If you've paid for a freemium upgrade in an app that relies on Google's ad network, does that default to completely disabling the ads integration? In other words, is the app still feeding data points into the ad network even though it may not be displaying ads? I had assumed it was, but your question makes me think otherwise.
Best to just block them, than rely on the skill/goodwill/giving-a-damn of the developer to not thrash all over your privacy.
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There are certain attempts to bring this "pay for content" to masses. Current model of subscribing to each site doesnt work. I dont think there is one widely adopted solution exists that would let you do one payment and access to sites. I sae attempts like cointent and brave, but whether they stick or not is yet to be seen. Ps:google emp.
I'm not sure what you mean by "doesn't work". Subscription payments can be extremely profitable, leading the the continued existence and even expansion of the site. The only downside is that only people who subscribe can see the majority of the content. Ads merely mean that more people can access the same information, including people who could have never or would have never paid for it. Subscriptions are merely less…
hey - sorry, didn't see the message before.
subscriptions today are per site. you have to maintain multiple subscriptions. Many people dislikes that. I wouldn't hesitate a second to subscribe if there was something that centralizes the subscription (like 10$ for month worth of content, split among publishers based on how much time i spend and what the value of content is).
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just yesterday was checking many browsers, Firefox on Android is slow, was comparing loading times and it was very slow compared to Brave it RSBrowser or even Chrome plus no pull down to refresh is killer and there doesn't even seem to be plugin to add this only button or more fingers gesture or not just swipe down on bright side on desktop i switched from chrome to Firefox and it seem ok, though it seem not so many…
Firefox has a bug where first the tab takes ages to load. Open the same page in another app and see it fly
in the end I gave p even on desktop and I am back to Chrome, firefox just kept freezing or was unresponsive even with few tabs open, also always refreshing tabs when returning to them after while, while I experience no problems with Chrome :(
on Android I switched from YuBrowser to Brave browser, Firefox doesn't have simple pull down to refresh and it's not optimized for Snapdragon plus kinda slow in real life scenarios