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That's why ad blockers are absolutely necessary. Not to scam companies out of their revenue, but because you cannot trust them in running clean ads. Fake virus
by fps_doug 8y ago
That's why ad blockers are absolutely necessary. Not to scam companies out of their revenue, but because you cannot trust them in running clean ads. Fake virus alerts even are the lesser evil, delivering browser exploits or draining the battery by running crypto-miners are much worse. You read about such incidents every couple weeks...
- cygned 8y agoOn desktop, I use uBlock and Privacy Badger, but on my iPhone there doesn’t seem to be an option.
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- Retric 8y agoThere are a few Add block options on iPhone what are they missing?
- cygned 8y agoI am just not aware of them, I guess. Never looked into them to be honest.
- innagadadavida 8y agoiOS has Adblock that comes with a DNS proxy using local VPN. Earlier it used to use the VPN to divert traffic to their app, but Apple banned that practice.
- pmlnr 8y agoFirefox on mobile can also use uBlock on android, I wonder if the iOS version can do it as well.
- LadyNike 8y agoOne can use Firefox Focus in place of AdGuard on iOS and it will perform the content filtering. :)
- benbristow 8y agoYou can download a content blocker app like AdGuard which integrates directly into Safari through an official API.
- kup0 8y agoI use 1Blocker through Safari and it works well. There are many others, some that may be cheaper or free
- tomp 8y agoThe basic version of 1Blocker is free, and works well for blocking ads. You just need a new-enough iOS.