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uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by dry_soup »

ornornor wrote: post #17

In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)

I block YouTube ads on iOS by watching in the browser (with no YouTube app installed) and using AdGuard.

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Post by ornornor »

moontear wrote: post #18
ornornor wrote: post #17

In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)

How does the Albanian VPN help? No ad revenue in Albania?

For some reason there are no YT ads in Albania. It’s refreshing.

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Post by ornornor »

v7engine wrote: post #19
ornornor wrote: post #17

In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)

Safari ads are not blocked when using NextDNS. Is it just me?

It’s is.

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Post by ge96 »

ffsm8 wrote: post #15
ge96 wrote: post #11

I use lite on firefox android it's great It's funny my Motorolla phone keeps installing random games on it like ugh...

Why use lite on Firefox/android, considering the normal one is available too?

Oh yeah my bad I mis-rememebered, I use lite on chrome pc and the regular mobile firefox

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Post by jim180 »

moontear wrote: post #18
ornornor wrote: post #17

In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)

How does the Albanian VPN help? No ad revenue in Albania?

The CPM difference in US vs. rest of the world is huge. If Albania has cpm near zero, it's not worth to show ads there.

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Post by threatofrain »

pasteldream wrote: post #24
troupo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Imagine asking the browser on my hardware to do things I don’t want it to do, and acting shocked when I tell it not to.

Imagine there's a business that can't really enforce whether you walk out without providing compensation. You realize you have the home court advantage on enforcement and guess what, you don't want to pay. It's your browser/wallet and that's your prerogative. But what does that mean about how tempting their goods are? Do we have prerogative to these goods?

Should we live in a world where we only permit business models that require customers pay directly or don't enter at all?

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Post by pasteldream »

threatofrain wrote: post #28
pasteldream wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine asking the browser on my hardware to do things I don’t want it to do, and acting shocked when I tell it not to.

Imagine there's a business that can't really enforce whether you walk out without providing compensation. You realize you have the home court advantage on enforcement and guess what, you don't want to pay. It's your browser/wallet and that's your prerogative. But what does that mean about how tempting their goods are? Do we have prerogative to these goods? Should we live in a world where we only permit business model…

You know, I do not actually know that a website had ads before clicking on a link to it; I would be happy to only visit websites without ads.

It’s scummy to shove ads in my face without at least warning me and giving me a chance to leave, I think.

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Post by Havoc »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #20
ornornor wrote: post #17

In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)

If you're in Europe, there's the newly launched DNS4EU project which is free for personal use, and also includes adblocking at the DNS level like NextDNS. I use it in conjunction with Adguard and secure DNS, but they also publish configuration profiles for iOS. https://www.joindns4.eu/ https://www.joindns4.eu/dns-guidelines

Thanks for pointing this out
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