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Anytime I need to use the browser on my phone, I'm shocked how bad and unusable the web is. I move back to my laptop with an ad blocker if I want to do anything
by keeganjw 4y ago
Anytime I need to use the browser on my phone, I'm shocked how bad and unusable the web is. I move back to my laptop with an ad blocker if I want to do anything other than a quick Google search. A few mainstream sites like Google and YouTube are alright, even if the ads are annoying, but most sites are just downright hostile to be on.
- RDaneel0livaw 4y agoIt really is shocking as you said. I think every single time I try to use the web on my phone, I think “how did this happen?” … because it truly is unusable. I was trying to read an article about a game my friend and I were playing and it had so many popups/popovers/ads/bullshit/etc and the worse thing ever where the page was jumping all over the place as I was trying to read it (what’s happening here? Other content loading in? It can’t know where my phone screen is though?). So I literally gave up, wrote it off as basically impossible to use. Went to the computer with Firefox and ublock and read the page. Unbelievable.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoI use Firefox on my phone for that purpose.
- anotherevan 4y agoWith the Ublockorigin add-on installed, I assume.
- jkestner 4y ago1Blocker is worth paying for, if you’re on iOS.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI'm not a fan of their token, but doesn't Brave Browser work on the iPhone, and is free? (Use Firefox for Android, with uBlock Origin add-on.)
- tuatoru 4y agoMost government websites are OK. I have about a dozen sites I access on my phone outside home. I use pi-hole at home. 1. https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/
- mikestew 4y agoImagine the bubble we live in at our house: everything, phone or otherwise, goes through the pi-hole. You can come to our house with your random phone or laptop, ad blocker or not, and you won't see ads, either, thanks to network-wide DNS blocking. And we both mostly WFH, and therefore rarely venture out into the wild, wild Internet outside of our home network. And then I have to look something up while we're camping, expecting the same experience as I get every other day of the week, and...I would seriously curtail most of my non-work-based Internet use in a major way if that's what I had to put up with every day.
- whoooooo123 4y agoMe too, although in a sense I kinda like it because it makes me use my phone less. Reddit is now completely unusable on a phone now unless you download the app, which I refuse to do. So I now spend far less time on Reddit, which has turned out to be a great choice. Sometimes I wish that more of my favourite distractions had more friction, not less.
- happymellon 4y agoUnfortunately Reddit.com on Firefox with uBlock works fine.
- solarkraft 4y agoWhy don't you have an ad blocker on your phone's browser?
- Saris 4y agoFirefox mobile supports extensions, just throw ublock on there!
- Blackstone4 4y agoNot on iPhone…where Firefox is based on the iOS browsers and will not work with extensions..
- Zizizizz 4y agohttps://nextdns.io/ https://nextdns.io/ or adguard-dns.io?
- Blackstone4 4y agoare you saying iphone users should use an adblocking DNS?
- silisili 4y agoJust use Brave. Any possible philosophical blockers should slowly dissipate as you realize how awesome the web is with zero ads.
- jen20 4y agoWhy not install a content filter on your phone then?
- marssaxman 4y agoWhy not install uBlock Origin on your phone? Works fine!