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AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 months agoI’m living mostly ad-free due to adblockers everywhere (except android) but most people don’t know, can’t do it or are brainwashed to think it’s amoral to block ads. If more people would catch on adblocking would be made illegal. And either way my personal choice doesn’t change what content is produced and how society is influenced. Personal responsibility doesn’t solve this just as it doesn’t climate change. Because advertising clearly does work.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Android is one of the easiest places to block ads.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Is it? Maybe. I managed to install the apps I need from f-droid and use firefox but it felt more difficult than on PC - where you just need to install an adblocker in your browser.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What ads are you trying to remove?
Firefox on android allows you to use uBlockOrigin. YoutubeRevanced is an excellent application patcher system that you can use to remove ads from YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, and many other. F-droid has some good resources.
If you’re playing games with ads, it’s a little harder. You probably need a piHole on your home network for that (they are super fun either way).
In general, yes, I guess it’s a little harder to remove ads from your entire phone than it is to just remove them from a desktop web browser. Way better than Apple’s options though.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Yeah basically the problem is the apps because mobile browser / mobile websites are less usable than desktop browser. I use NewPipe / PipePipe for youtube on android, hopefully it’ll keep working. Right now I don’t have any ads on android. But I’m only using very few apps. Thankfully the android ecosystem seems to be improving.
Mkengine@feddit.de 7 months ago
Use this Site, Go to method 2 -> Android and set up your DNS manually. That’s it, no more ads on Android.
iquanyin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
adguard works pretty well for me on ios and i believe they have it for android too. the free version is good, the pro even better.