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Ublock Origin and never see an ad again. I can't believe there are still people who don't do this. You can even do it on your mobile device if you use android a
by fartcannon 4y ago
Ublock Origin and never see an ad again. I can't believe there are still people who don't do this. You can even do it on your mobile device if you use android and firefox.
- IgorPartola 4y agoIt works pretty well but (a) not on mobile and (b) not on blogspam.
- gzer0 4y agoPaying google for google premium wouldn’t help with the blogspam
- Nextgrid 4y agoIf Google's only revenue was from users they would have more incentive making features that encourage those users to keep paying them.
- nvrspyx 4y agoContent blockers on iOS work well for removing ads on Google. I'm not sure if there's an Android equivalent. The catch for iOS is that you have to use Safari, unless the browser has an ad blocker built-in. It won't solve blog spam either.
- OJFord 4y agoThe Android 'equivalent' is just using the uBlock Origin add-on in Firefox as usual, not some new Apple-invented category of app and hamstrung browsers that are all basically Safari.
- scarface74 4y agoGood luck with using that “equivalent” in an embedded web view. Besides, if I care about my privacy, why would I want to use an ad blocker that has access to my web browsing history? iOS content blockers tell Safari what to block and don’t have access to where you go.
- deadbunny 4y agoAndroid uses the default browser for webview. If you have Firefox + uBlock Origin as your default browser you get ad blocking in your webview.
- scarface74 4y agoBy “embedded web view”, I don’t mean when you click on a link it switches to another app. I mean something like an RSS reader where you view a web page inside the hosted app. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView > Mozilla uses GeckoView to power Firefox for Android, Firefox Reality, Firefox Focus, and other Android apps. GeckoView serves a similar purpose to Android's built-in WebView, but it has its own APIs and is not a drop in replacement.
- yissp 4y agoYou can replace the default web view, although I believe it requires root access. I've been using https://www.bromite.org/system_web_view https://www.bromite.org/system_web_view for a while and it works pretty well.
- scarface74 4y agoBut you can’t replace it with Firefox’s GeckoView since they don’t support the equivalent APIs according to their own documentation. So the only way you can actually use your ad blocked system wide is through a series of hacks https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md That’s definitely a lot easier than just…going to the App Store. Of course when your phone is using an OS that is created by an ad tech company, they aren’t going to make it easy to block ads system wide.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoYeah, but it’s still Android… Yuck.
- fartcannon 4y agoI actually even go further and degoogle my android phones so it's just this quiet, open source minimalist utopia. It's magnificent.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoGive me a third option. Both Android and iPhone are inferior products compared to even Windows 10 in terms of what control I have on my device
- px43 4y agoWhat a crazy thing to say. Do the konami dance on Android to set your device to developer mode, and it literally gives you a root shell on a Linux system with a completely open source OS that you can tweak, complile, and reflash yourself. That whole process is simple enough that any given 10 year old can figure it out in a weekend and have complete control over their device if they want it, no fancy exploits or anything required. The fact that Windows 10 has zero protections WRT physical or app security is not something to be proud of.
- easrng 4y agoYou can't root or reflash all android phones. You can use the adb shell without root but it... isn't root.
- px43 4y agoYou can't root or re-flash all Windows devices either. It's an open platform, so of course there are a ton of bad actors in the space who are going to add their own garbage and try to prevent people from removing it, but if you buy a phone from a reputable source, it's going to let you put it into dev mode. Obviously don't buy the malware encrusted garbage sold directly from shady telecom companies etc.
- nvrspyx 4y agoI didn't mean an equivalent to iOS's content blockers specifically, but an ad block solution in general. I don't use Android, so I'm not familiar with what's available.
- wruza 4y agonot some new Apple-invented category of app This is bad why exactly? and hamstrung browsers that are all basically Safari Content blockers work in original Safari. Which part don’t you like? Content blockers as an app, safari itself, or inability to load third party js into every page you visit? I wish PC browsers had something like that, because while I trust uBlock Origin (and others, e.g. Bitwarden), there’s always a chance someone hacks into their repo. Modular integration - separate Bitwarden and Adguard apps - is objectively better for these use cases than just pouring some javascripts into every website.
- OJFord 4y ago> This is bad why exactly? I just mean that 'content blockers' are a solution to a problem of Apple's own creation - > Content blockers work in original Safari. I know, what I mean there is that all the browsers on iOS are only superficially not Safari; which is the only reason 'content blockers' work in anything 'not' Safari.
- jon-wood 4y agoYou have to use Safari on iOS anyway, because the only permitted web view implementation is Safari’s. Firefox/Opera/Chrome on iOS is just Safari in a trench coat.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoYou also have to use Safari on MacOS if you're interested in getting the longest battery life.
- schleck8 4y agoThere is Bromite, a Chromium fork -Google +Adblock. Also you can change your DNS server permanently to an adblocking one like ControlD or NextDNS, iOS hilariously enough only allows this on a per-network basis.
- karolist 4y ago(a) mobile -> VPN -> server with PiHole
- thisismyaccoun7 4y agoKiwi browser allows for full add-ons including ublock
- fartcannon 4y ago... You can use ublock origin on Firefox on mobile. Its part of the reason to favour an open OS like Android, over iOS.
- b15h0p 4y agoThere are ad blockers on iOS, too. They are implemented in such a way that they can not spy on you—they simply provide a „block list“ that is executed by the browser. Works pretty well in my experience.
- fartcannon 4y agoThat's good. I don't trust Apple though and I have no way to verify Apple isn't spying on me. In fact I'm pretty sure they are.
- HWR_14 4y agoUltimately, you have to trust someone. Unless you write your own compilers in machine code, and get the source, review it, etc. you have to trust someone along the chain. Hell, Intel/AMD could be fucking with you via the CPU. If I have to trust someone, I trust the multi-trillion dollar company built on privacy. If they are found to be spying on people, the hit to the wealth of everyone who works there will be massive.
- fartcannon 4y agoThey're built on advertising. The same advertising that makes you think they're not spying on you.
- HWR_14 4y agoApple doesn't sell advertising, nor do I think they spy on me. Or become famous and probably dialed rich by publishing the details of how they do so
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- wruza 4y agoAdguard does the same good job on ios as ublock origin does on a pc. Even on youtube.com. No third-party browsers, no mandatory vpn. Just install it and enable its rules in safari settings.
- fartcannon 4y agoThat's good stuff. Can you personally compile and install it on iOS?
- wruza 4y agoThis rhetoric only makes sense if you’re reviewing every update of uBlock your device receives. My concern is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380528
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI literally feel bad. Is there a name for that disorder? Excess corporate empathy? Idk
- fartcannon 4y agoI'd call it marketing.
- flanking_pajama 4y agoI'd feel bad if advertising law wasn't a joke, and ads weren't basically an aggressive waste of time/money as a result. Like man, I always hear "so many people make their living on this" but uh, maybe if false advertising law is practically unenforced and most ads are practically usually lies pushed by the already established winners in their industry... Which it certainly seems to be, then. I find it hard to feel too bad, especially when people in the advertising business are probably not going to end up street beggars if things suddenly changed. edit: although that "makes a living" argument may go wayside a little with the inevitable AI-generated, focus-group tested future we'll be living in. Hmm.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoDo you feel bad when you don't read every marketing junk mail you receive?
- muzani 4y agoI consider the ads to be part of an unwritten contract. I get free content, they get to throw ads at me. Junk mail is not a part of that contract.
- Teever 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
- dr_dshiv 4y agoTruth
- slotrans 4y agoUBlock Origin, as awesome as it is, does not remove ads from Google search results.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoHow does one remove YouTube app ads on iOS? Already have pihole on my home network and unlock on all non-iOS browsers.
- b15h0p 4y agoI think using an adblocker and uninstalling the YouTube app should be sufficient. The downside being that the playback quality is worse (720p max, I think).
- ipaddr 4y agoMost top videos are 1080/60 some higher. Does anyone upload 360 or 180 videos on here?
- yonaguska 4y agoI simply don't use the YouTube app on mobile. I use YouTube via the brave browser which automatically blocks ads. Not the best experience since you can't background videos playing, but it works for me.
- backerei 4y agoTry turning on Background video playback in Settings in General category. At least it works for me.
- shaoonb 4y agoAdGuard and use the web version of YouTube.
- eins1234 4y agoAs a YouTube Premium subscriber who sees no ads, I find sponsor segments to be the real bane of my existence.
- indecisive_user 4y agoCrowd sourced extension to skip over those parts - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
- Seasonwreckage 4y ago