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In unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining t

In unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining the entire web these days, and the experience keeps worsening.

asix66 2y ago
uBlock origin in the browser. PiHole at home. NextDNS mobile. I’ll concede it’s an infinite game of Whac-A-Mole, but a game I’m willing to play
- metadat 2y ago
  Doesn't work at all for the most dominant browsers -- mobile, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves the borders of home base and pups their own custom router (like opnsense, I do this but its a pain to set up and maintain, quite niche). If only there were a popular browser that makes uBlock Origin brain dead simple.. it ain't Firefox, Safari, or Brave, of this you can be certain.
  - sundvor 2y ago
    I didn't see any ads myself. Samsung Internet on my S21 Ultra (16gb) - a couple of their ad blockers installed. Absolutely love it.
    - metadat 2y ago
      That's cool, what browser?
      - sundvor 2y ago
        Samsung Internet :-) It's the default browser for Samsung phones.
  - jfim 2y ago
    What I've done in the past was to set up a wireguard VPN that also has pihole installed.
    - metadat 2y ago
      Great, except it will burn your battery on mobile.
      - livueta 2y ago
        I don't find that to be the case with wg - have actually tested this and found a ~1-2% difference in battery consumption over a full charge, all on lte (pixel 8, graphene). Openvpn, though - yeah.
        metadat 2y ago
        Hmm, I wonder if graphene is different than stock Android. This doesn't jive with my experience, sadly (tailscale).
        livueta 2y ago
        Definitely possible. Now I want to dig out a stock Android phone and retest. Aiui tailscale shouldn't introduce much if any load over wg, but I also wonder if you'd have different results with standalone wg.
  - alex_c 2y ago
    BlockBear on iOS works well enough.
  - cuu508 2y ago
    uBlock Origin works on Firefox mobile.
    - bornfreddy 2y ago
      Can confirm. No ads for me on this site either.
- neom 2y ago
  https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/ also, can't believe I didn't discover it earlier. Youtube Premium is the only subscription I pay for media wise, and it's fantastic.
- PhilipRoman 2y ago
  Brave works great on both desktop and mobile. I have to add an exception to the ad blocker roughly once a month. I guess DNS blocking may be needed if you use spyware programs outside the browser, which I don't.
giuseppe_petri 2y ago
I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.
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shever73 2y ago
I use Brave on mobile and didn’t get any ads in the video.
johneth 2y ago
One minor benefit to living in the UK – no ads on the BBC website.

asix66 2y ago

uBlock origin in the browser. PiHole at home. NextDNS mobile. I’ll concede it’s an infinite game of Whac-A-Mole, but a game I’m willing to play

metadat 2y ago
Doesn't work at all for the most dominant browsers -- mobile, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves the borders of home base and pups their own custom router (like opnsense, I do this but its a pain to set up and maintain, quite niche). If only there were a popular browser that makes uBlock Origin brain dead simple.. it ain't Firefox, Safari, or Brave, of this you can be certain.
- sundvor 2y ago
  I didn't see any ads myself. Samsung Internet on my S21 Ultra (16gb) - a couple of their ad blockers installed. Absolutely love it.
  - metadat 2y ago
    That's cool, what browser?
    - sundvor 2y ago
      Samsung Internet :-) It's the default browser for Samsung phones.
- jfim 2y ago
  What I've done in the past was to set up a wireguard VPN that also has pihole installed.
  - metadat 2y ago
    Great, except it will burn your battery on mobile.
    - livueta 2y ago
      I don't find that to be the case with wg - have actually tested this and found a ~1-2% difference in battery consumption over a full charge, all on lte (pixel 8, graphene). Openvpn, though - yeah.
      - metadat 2y ago
        Hmm, I wonder if graphene is different than stock Android. This doesn't jive with my experience, sadly (tailscale).
        livueta 2y ago
        Definitely possible. Now I want to dig out a stock Android phone and retest. Aiui tailscale shouldn't introduce much if any load over wg, but I also wonder if you'd have different results with standalone wg.
- alex_c 2y ago
  BlockBear on iOS works well enough.
- cuu508 2y ago
  uBlock Origin works on Firefox mobile.
  - bornfreddy 2y ago
    Can confirm. No ads for me on this site either.
neom 2y ago
https://sponsor.ajay.app/ https://sponsor.ajay.app/ also, can't believe I didn't discover it earlier. Youtube Premium is the only subscription I pay for media wise, and it's fantastic.
PhilipRoman 2y ago
Brave works great on both desktop and mobile. I have to add an exception to the ad blocker roughly once a month. I guess DNS blocking may be needed if you use spyware programs outside the browser, which I don't.

giuseppe_petri 2y ago

I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.

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shever73 2y ago

I use Brave on mobile and didn’t get any ads in the video.

johneth 2y ago

One minor benefit to living in the UK – no ads on the BBC website.