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>And nobody cares to give you a good adblocking solution out of the box. Google makes money by ads so I guess they'll never change that. I've never used an app
by bubblethink 9y ago
>And nobody cares to give you a good adblocking solution out of the box. Google makes money by ads so I guess they'll never change that.
I've never used an apple device, but does apple give you that ? The problem you are describing is a general one due to overlapping roles of all hardware and software makers. Everyone wants ad and data money.
- pdimitar 9y agoFinally a good point in this mini-thread. Yes they don't do it as well. However, Safari claims to block some trackers by default which is still a win for the average consumer who won't ever fiddle with settings. Safari allows you to use an adblocker (Firefox Focus). Chrome on Android doesn't have such settings and I suspect it won't ever have them. They plan to add adblocking but knowing Google, they'll use that feature to axe their competition, not to protect their users. As for me, I'll just setup a VPN in my Mikrotik router and will add all widely known DNS blacklists to it (~53000 hosts). As mentioned above, I am not too keen of my devices doing 17000 ad/tracking requests a day, Android or iOS. So yes, sadly to this day people have to jump through hoops to take back some (most?) or their privacy and not donate their internet traffic to corps who only want to farm your data.