With the multitude of possible approaches to ad/tracker blocking, and varying personal opinions about the merit of doing so, I’m curious what people are actually using day-to-day to improve privacy of their desktop and mobile environments.
What does your ad/tracker blocking setup look like?
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#2default mode is no JS, and no 3rd party anything.
2nd parties are strongly suspect.
if those criteria leave me with a white page then i drop the CSS style into no style and read text, or source code for text strings.
if i get nothing after that then i search DDG for similar pages where i can see the content without problems.
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#3Firefox Focus on iPhone / iPad. Ublock Origin on Mac.
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#4Safari with JS disabled on macOS and iOS, Firefox with a custom user.js on elementaryOS. I enable JS only when necessary — looking at you, Help Scout.
For actual blocking, I run a Pi-hole on a VPS that connects to multiple DNSCrypt servers that I control, which block everything I want while improving privacy. Planning on replacing Pi-hole with AdGuard Home for DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS, since I want to have this server public at some point, for others to use.
If anyone is interested in testing, shoot me an email at root@jamespond.co. No logging, DNSSEC, disk encryption, Canonical Livepatch, 24/7 monitoring and completely open source.
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#5Chrome with ublock origin advanced mode - 3rd party frames & scripts blocked by default.
iOS - Safari with AdGuard as content blocker
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#6Ublock origin + PiHole
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#7I don't use one.
I like not paying directly for content and accept that ads and tracking are the price I "pay". I personally don't feel comfortable taking something without holding up my end of the bargain.
It's really not a big deal. Sometimes I see products I want to buy or things I looked at and forgot about and end up buying them.
It's also not the horrific and torturous experience I read about on here. I wonder if I'm just going to the wrong sites lol?
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#8uBlock Origin at work (Chrome / Edge). Wipr at home (OSX, iOS). This gives me an ad free environment without the hassle (such as disabling JS).
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#9I have JavaScript disabled mostly. And then, I have various custom CSS rules defined. And other settings. I do not actually have a ad-blocker installed.
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#10Use the modern primitive browser mothra on 9front at home, dillo at work (linux), and then iridium on openbsd with ublock origin, when mothra or dillo are not enough for the site.