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Wouldn’t favour the growth of alternative app stores? Upcoming European legislation is forcing eve Apple to allow third party stores on iPhones. I doubt Google would get away much longer with those practices.
There is a legitimate problem with malware that hijacks all traffic via VPN. Maybe you should hear other side before making judgement!
Facebook comes to mind: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=onavo
There is a legitimate problem with malware that hijacks all traffic via VPN. Maybe you should hear other side before making judgement!
Ok, so using the same logic we should ban all car traffic because someone was raped in a taxi?
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.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
Initial content blocker support came with iOS 9 in 2015. They only work in Safari, maybe also other browsers (not sure though).
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Apple allows ad-blocking filters that are basically Safari extensions but must be downloaded through a separate app. I can’t recommend any specific ad-blocked though. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0... The usual VPN and DNS solutions also work fine.
I have had a very good experience with 1Blocker so far. Not quite ublock origin but close enough that I almost never notice a difference from my daily desktop use. There is another extension called Vinegar that strips out YouTube ads, but unfortunately it only works with Safari on iOS and not Firefox (even though both are using the same core engine) so I need to remember to bounce over to Safari when watching YouTube…
Going on a tangent, how is the adblocking story on iOS? As there is not Firefox+uBlock available, is it possible to block ads via VPN or DNS?
1Blocker¹ does it. It’s the “Firewall” section of the iOS app.
Root access and AdAway from F-Droid. I wouldn't even bother using anything else.
There are workarounds of course, but I am becoming tired of the cat and mouse game, in fact, I am tired of smartphones altogether. Unless things change, my current phone is probably the last rooted phone I will use as a daily driver, sadly, the last "high end" phone too.
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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.
What's wrong with Firefox Focus as a Safari content blocker? I barely see ads on my iPhone and websites breaking because I have an ad blocker is more common than seeing ads.
Can you give an example of a website that breaks with an adblocker? (Please describe what breaks as well. Otherwise I might not notice it.)
Play Store has more and more restrictions each month...but it may be a good thing? because people is now discovering the alternate stores and the advantages of them.