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I'm surprised more people aren't using uBlock Origin. It's an absolute necessity for browsing the web anymore.
When I can set that up for my AppleTV to block ads on YouTube, I’ll be happy to use it.
I barely ever use PC for browsing web anymore.
It's available for mobile as well. You find it in the extension manager
For which mobile and what extensions manager?
I'm blocking ads phone-wide, I just don't use uBlock Origin for that on the phone.
Firefox for Android has uBlock Origin (and lots of other useful extensions). You do need to set Firefox as the default app for YouTube links, but after that it works perfectly.
I use NewPipe for Youtube, there are no ads at all.
I use AdGuard for blocking ads phone-wide and if I hadn't, Vivaldi has a built-in adblocker too.
Bottom line is I don't see any ads without using uBlock Origin. Original commenter is "surprised more people aren't using" it like it's the only way to go, while in reality it usable only in certain scenarios. It's best for PC but not for mobile.
You've brought a strawman into the conversation, but in short, uBlock is best maintained and tends to be the most robust. Your solution works too
Firefox, mull, fennec, etc
Orion on iOS has some support for FF extensions—Ublock seems to work more or less
Couldn't you just use an adblocker extension in Safari?
firefox exists on mobile too
ublock is more efficient in the browser than any dns based blocking, as it can (and does) make changes to the website itself
Why are you telling me this?
you have said this
I wanted to let you know that such a countermeasure is not as effective as confining untrusted parties into a web browser with ublock
I didn't say I use DNS based blocking.
how do you block ads phone-wide?
AdGuard installs a small local VPN server on the device and routes traffic through it filtering it as per my settings. It can filter the apps I choose, has the same capabilites as uBlock Origin and more, while uBlock Origin can only filter content within a few select browsers.
that is basically DNS based filtering. no, it does not have the same capabilities as uBO. Or can it make changes to packets going in and out of the system? I doubt it.
I honestly think it' seven more important to have an adblock on a phone.
The amount of pages that on mobile are an advert covering the top half, and a give us your data prompt at the bottom seems to be nearly everything these days. At least on a monitor there's room for the content.
I didn't say I don't block ads on the phone. Read my other comments here.
Firefox on android supports addons, so you can install uBlock on it too. If you use an apple device, you are limited to DNS based ad blocking, which doesn't help with youtube.
I really like YouTube Revanced on Android, it's a patcher that includes an ad blocker as well as a ton of other QOL fixes.
But I understand why more people don't fuck with it, because if you install it wrong, your app will bug in the weirdest ways. Like my YouTube app kept getting renamed with the content of my last error message.
I use Revance Manager for patching other apps but youtube app is shit no matter how much you patch it. Prefer NewPipe or even LibreTube over patched Youtube app.
Same, but when I sit and do stuff in my laptop I end up procrastinating even more with it than my phone... Anyway, I block ads everywhere I can, and when I cannot, usually I have a pihole running in the background for that in my local network.