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Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#71

Firefox + uBlock Origin works well for me! It's all I use.

In addition to that, I use EFF's Privacy Badger https://www.eff.org/pages/privacy-badger

The ublock origin FAQ recommends not using additional content blockers or you may run into effectiveness/detection problems.

I've never had the former happen, but it's something to be aware of.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#73
post #69

In case you have an older webOS tv and don’t want to setup a home media server: https://rootmy.tv/

That has a very narrow target. I have an old webos TV and it's been patched for these vulnerabilities years ago.

People who never connected their TV to the Internet maybe...

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#74
On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders.

Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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post #53

Not mentioned yet: Paying for YouTube Premium if you and your other family members watch a lot of YT. This is only needed for Smart TVs. It's $23 per month for up to a family of five. You also get YouTube Music as well. Otherwise, I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger and also have redundant PiHole servers.

I hooked up an old PC to my TV and then taught my extremely tech illiterate wife to use VNC on her phone to control the PC. Now her YouTube and Chinese streaming sites are ad-free. My kids will have to wait until they can operate a web browser on a computer before I’ll let them on YouTube. Until then I let them use Netflix or VLC on an iPad with local content I downloaded (yt-dlp, etc).

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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post #53

Not mentioned yet: Paying for YouTube Premium if you and your other family members watch a lot of YT. This is only needed for Smart TVs. It's $23 per month for up to a family of five. You also get YouTube Music as well. Otherwise, I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger and also have redundant PiHole servers.

It’s not mentioned because we’re on HACKER NEWS discussing adblocking, FFS.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#77

On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders. Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?

I used Orion Browser from kagi. It lets you install extensions.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#78

On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders. Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?

AdGuard is really good, amd almost as good as uBlock for me.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#79

On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders. Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?

I use Wipr on iOS+Safari and MacOS+Safari. It works just as well as Firefox+uBlock Origin on Windows/Linux.
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