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Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It's baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad b
by madars 4y ago
Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It's baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad blocker I have tried. They kind-of work but let half of the ads through.
- poglet 4y agoNot comparable but NextDNS has been working well for me on iOS.
- comprev 4y agoNextDNS works for 95% of the web I visit. AdGuard iOS plugin works on Facebook's mobile web app for when I rarely use it.
- dcdc123 4y agoBrave browser on iOS has good blocking, but the browser experience itself is a bit of a mixed bag.
- kmlx 4y agoi’ve used this one for years: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/wipr/id1030595027 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/wipr/id1030595027 no issues, works great.
- walterbell 4y agoAnother vote for Wipr on iOS for Safari ad blocking. For system wide (including apps) ad blocking, Lockdown has a "local VPN".
- nixass 4y agoBrowser experience is shite like any other Safari wrapped abomination
- mlindner 4y agoDo all the people who use computers to browse the internet (the majority of people on the internet) suddenly no longer exist?
- contravariant 4y agoI'm wondering if those still are the majority, worldwide. Smart-phones have done a lot to democratize computing power (now if only they weren't used to put >90% of their users in corporate controlled walled gardens...)
- jstx1 4y agoI bet they're still the majority - the people who only use their phone do it through apps, not through their mobile browser.
- sidlls 4y agoSmart phones didn’t change anything here: 99% of their users didn’t care about the “open” nature of desktops before they were a thing, too. A vanishingly small percentage of computer users care about tinkering and openness. It’s been decades since tinkerers and hackers were the majority of computer users.
- hilbert42 4y agoThat's the tragic outcome of that type of democratization and I'm not sure it can ever be fixed.
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- hailwren 4y agoYeah, android trades browser ads for system wide tracking. I’m not really sure that’s a good deal.
- jszymborski 4y agoGrapheneOS is a great option for those with a Pixel device :)
- kornhole 4y agoThat is only if you have Google Play Services installed.
- scarface74 4y agoSo you mean like 99%+ of all Android devices sold outside of China?
- bandyaboot 4y agoI think this was meant to point out that trading ads for system wide tracking isn’t necessarily a deal you are forced to make if you are a person who is motivated not to make that deal. For most people avoiding tracking isn’t even a thought. Their first order of business is inviting Facebook, Twitter, and Tik Tok to the party.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThat's ... near a necessity for most apps. Though I seem to recall GPS shim that's available and which I really should swap in on my BOOX tablet.
- kornhole 4y agoI have been running Graphene for years and find that few proprietary apps really need GAPS. I get a warning that it is required when they try to serve an ad, but I just dismiss it and enjoy the ad free experience. Graphene has great shims and even a sandboxed Google Play Services for those who want a lot of notifications. I don't use it myself, but my partner does.
- layer8 4y agoAdGuard Pro works pretty well for me on iOS.
- thefourthchime 4y agoYeah, it works well for me as well. I see zero ads.
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- wrycoder 4y agoI'm reasonably happy with AdBlock+
- kubectl_h 4y ago1blocker works fine for me.
- happybuy 4y agoI develop a popular iOS and macOS ad blocker that block almost all ads[1] including all YouTube ads. Will be interested to hear if you've tried it out and what may have been missing? The only things we don't block at the moment is some non-English content and Adult sites. With a small team these haven't been the primary focus for the time being. Other than those though we should stop pretty much everything else. [1] https://www.magiclasso.co/ https://www.magiclasso.co/
- ryanianian 4y agoHey thanks for Magic Lasso. I've had it installed for years. Only after starting my app library from fresh did I realize how much I missed it (and it took me quite a while to figure out and remember that it was magiclasso doing the heavy lifting - easy to install and forget!)
- happybuy 4y agoDon't worry I'm the same! If you use an ad blocker for a long time, it's easy to forget how bad the web can be without one.
- gigatexal 4y agoThe app works well enough but I deleted it. After setting it all up there’s no mention that it will work without the subscription. There’s no mode to say “continue without the subscription using the free services” just a very large button and a description of the price to subscribe. That’s hella sus. Also the very first screen doesn’t let you opt out of notifications or skip it with “setup later” etc etc — these customer / user hostile patterns had me so jaded I deleted the app and won’t go back.
- radicaldreamer 4y agoTry Wipr (https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html)
- happybuy 4y ago
- agiacalone 4y agoNextDNS (or a similar DNS ad-blocker solution like PiHole) works wonders on iOS.
- SamuelAdams 4y agoThis assumes you never leave the house (which is true for me lol)
- Terretta 4y agoNo, install the .mobileconfig profile (or app) and enjoy it everywhere.
- basch 4y agoThere is an app
- agiacalone 4y agoAs others have said, .mobileconfig or official app work great. I geek out a bit and use Surge for iOS (pricey and not for non-techie users) and run a few proxies. It'll also allow for DNS override, which I use NextDNS's DNS over HTTPS. https://www.nssurge.com/ https://www.nssurge.com/
- arm 4y agoI haven’t used the iOS version of Orion myself (only the macOS version), but uBlock Origin + Orion would be the equivalent for iOS: https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#iosext https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#iosext https://browser.kagi.com/ https://browser.kagi.com/
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoDid apple allow 3rd parties using WKWebView to get access their JS engine? Orion really seems fast.
- gt565k 4y agoBrave browser works just fine for iOS
- scarface74 4y agoSo tell me what ads I’m not blocking and haven’t been blocking for the last 7 years on iOS? And bonus points - my ad blocker works with embedded web views
- pimlottc 4y agoPiHole?
- scarface74 4y agoSo I got to set up another server or I can Judy install any ad blocker for iOS.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoYou don't need pihole. there are adblockers on iOS. They aren't as flexible as ublock on android but they're 98% there and good enough with the added advantage that google isn't spying on your every move and sending it back to the mothership.
- R_VelJohnson 4y agoInstead, Apple is (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/13/ios-16-vpns-leak-data-even-with-lockdown-mode/ https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/13/ios-16-vpns-leak-data-e...). And so is your cell phone provider (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-selling-your-location-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...). And so is every third party app on your phone (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government-buys-our-cell-phone-location-data https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government...). Carrying a smartphone is incompatible with privacy. Unfortunately, so is using a credit card (https://www.fastcompany.com/90490923/credit-card-companies-are-tracking-shoppers-like-never-before-inside-the-next-phase-of-surveillance-capitalism https://www.fastcompany.com/90490923/credit-card-companies-a...) and having a face (https://www.wired.com/story/get-used-to-face-recognition-in-stadiums/ https://www.wired.com/story/get-used-to-face-recognition-in-...). We're all doomed, so you may as well just use the software that makes you happy.
- stjohnswarts 4y agomeh there are adblockers on iphone that do about 90% of what ublocker does (defaults, not tweaked). Good enough for me to not have google in my life.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoApple snoops on your pictures. [1] https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/ https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
- skhr0680 4y agoAdGuard is free and has never let me down. Sometimes preroll YouTube ads will get through on my phone, but it’s not a big deal.
- grupthink 4y agoIs there an ad blocker for Safari on iOS that can deal with Youtube ads? AdGuard requires you to do a dance every time you reload the page.
- corysama 4y agoGet Firefox Focus for iOS. Set it as the ad blocker for Safari. Works pretty well. No proxy involved. Extra-tricky ads still get through. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-focus-ios https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-focus-ios
- Terretta 4y agoSounds like you need to try more. 1Blocker is fantastic. AdGuard for iOS is fantastic. MagicLasso is free. You can even run uBlock on Kagi Orion if that's your thing. I use one of the above + NextDNS* and am entirely ad free all the time everywhere. * See also the new AdGuard DNS.
- EricE 4y ago1Blocker has a built in internal device local VPN service that also covers all apps on the phone - not just Safari. Breaks any of the "free with ad" games so yeah, it's effective!
- LegitShady 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918382 magiclasso isn't free
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- sailfast 4y agoFirefox Focus is pretty good for iOS.
- dngray 4y agoJust be mindful that Firefox/Android doesn't have process isolation. https://www.privacyguides.org/mobile-browsers/#android https://www.privacyguides.org/mobile-browsers/#android This is because the desktop browser uses the full "Gecko" renderer, but mobile uses "GeckoView", that doesn't have that implemented yet.
- iggldiggl 4y agoGeckoView is literally Gecko with an Android API wrapped around it, so that sentence doesn't really explain anything. The actual thing is that simply each app embedding Gecko needs to be brought up to speed separately, and if Android is lagging behind, it just is, "GeckoView" or not. (Even before the invention of GeckoView, due to understaffing Android Firefox used to lag behind in terms of multi-process capability, so nothing new under the sun…)
- winbat 4y agoMost blockers are running through Safari Extensions, so they’re limited to whatever Apple allows them to do. It’s no uBlock, but I made an app that lets you run your whole device’s traffic through a blocker [0]. [0]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tulabyte/id1566083358 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tulabyte/id1566083358