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Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by pdimitar »

Larrikin wrote: post #18
bloopernova wrote: post #5

Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.

The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The modern web is so much worse than the pop up ads of the old web.

1Blocker installed locally + PiHole on the router / the local network.

Nearly spotless experience, costs me 10 bucks a year. And everyone at home is protected.

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by denton-scratch »

eru wrote: post #113
laurent123456 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even without the ads, you still have multiple cookie popups and banners, floating videos and newsletter notifications to closes before getting to the content. And of course as you scroll down some of those come back (floating videos in particular). There was a time where you could just close the tab if it was that bad, but now pretty much all websites are like this so there's no choice.

Well, the cookie popups are only there because of regulation. You are right about all the rest.

Excuse me? What regulation requires cookie popups?

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by lotsofpulp »

rabuse wrote: post #189
rapnie wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Firefox Focus mostly to watch YouTube vids on my iOS tablet, and it is one big ad-infested experience. Just learned I should look at AdGuard and hope that will bring improvement. Update : On first impression that does not seem to have worked.

I don't believe there is any way for blocking Youtube ads on iOS currently. It's a shame, because those double 15 second ones drive me mad.

I use Wipr and do not see YouTube ads 90% of the time. Although, I only watch 1 or 2 YouTube videos per week.

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by washadjeffmad »

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #81
bloopernova wrote: post #5

Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.

We're all gonna be so screwed if Firefox dies.

Fork the web. I'd be down for a non-commercial / ad hostile design.

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by Terretta »

Larrikin wrote: post #18
bloopernova wrote: post #5

Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.

The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. The modern web is so much worse than the pop up ads of the old web.

> The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads.

Most people don’t.

Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like:

- 1Blocker - super full featured, including custom script and css rules. business model is paid software, not ‘acceptable ads’ paying them for placement or third parties paying for your data

- AdGuard Pro - Similar to 1Blocker, less custom config friendly

- https://nextdns.io/ - pihole type blocker with unlimited configurations, custom rules, and analytics, native hooks for devices

- https://adguard-dns.io/ - similar DNS[1] service to nextdns.io with ability to upload your own rules based configurations

- Firefox Focus if using that ecosystem

- Brave if using that ecosystem

- iCab Mobile if wanting a super configurable browser with filter rules and longest history as indie browser for iOS

Folks also use ancillary quieters such as:

- Hiya - call / sms blocking

- Hushed - throwaway numbers for spam SMS

- - -

1. Note that the AdGuard public DNS server including custom DNS filtering rules has just (26 August 2022) gone open source: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-dns-2-0-goes-open-source...

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by jacquesm »

jsheard wrote: post #114
pineconewarrior wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

glad firefox is allowing and end-run around this

With Firefoxes market share continuously declining, and AFAICT no real indication they're going to be able to turn things around, I fear it's only a matter of time before they pull an Edge/Opera and turn into another Chromium reskin to cut costs.

What Firefox needs is to be spun out of Mozilla, to get competent management and a way to directly donate to FF without also ending up sponsoring all of their pet projects.

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by Kirby64 »

t0bia_s wrote: post #118
criddell wrote: post #75

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Are you sure about the 3.5W? That seems high. An iPad at idle with the display on uses less than that.

I use RPi 3B because of lower power consumption than 3B+, 4B... It is around 300mA. I connect power cable to USB from router that has 500mA output. It works great. RPi 3B+ has sometimes problem with stability because of higher power consumption. Official power supply of RPi is 2,6A if I remember correctly, so 3,5 is not even possible? Btw, many routers support sleep mode. It is not necessary to run router/connected R…

Watts vs. current.

At 300mA, that's 1.5W of power.

Maximum current draw on a pi4 is 3A (~15W), but that's purely a power supply input limitation. You only get close to that with a ton of peripherals and heavy load on the Pi.

Re: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

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Post by tssva »

ignoramous wrote: post #61

I co-develop a FOSS VPN-based (tcp/udp) firewall for Android. The original policy is documented here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220818100735/https://support.g... What the post misses is Google has exceptions for: - Parental control and enterprise management apps. - App usage tracking. - Device security apps (for example, anti-virus, mobile device management, firewall). - Network related tools (for example, remote…

You left off an important part of the exception statement. "Exceptions include apps that require a remote server for core functionality such as:" It is followed by the list you posted above. This is completely in line with the original post which states that their prior version which did on device filtering would be banned and their current version which works in conjunction with a remote server to perform the filtering would be allowed.
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