• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Inb4 “you can’t block ads on an iPhone”. Wipr2 for $4.99, independent developer, active on the Fediverse (Mastodon). uBlock Origin Lite for free, slightly less capable. Both only work on Safari. Adguard Pro is $10 and uses a “VPN” to block ads. Sometimes it doesn’t work. (It used to be $1, that’s what I paid for it.) I use Wipr2 now and I’ve uninstalled apps that serve ads like IMDb and YouTube. I just access them in Safari now.

    Of course Advertise with uBlock Origin in Firefox is the better option. And it doesn’t autocorrect iPhone to something else like my iPhone just did when I tried to type the name of a rival platform. That’s not a typo, that’s an iPhone feature, and it can’t be disabled. (I can go back and manually fix it, but the fact that it does it at all is pretty bad.)

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      1·
      1 month ago

      Most ads are gone when your DNS blocks them anyway. Can’t you change your DNS on iPhones? Preferably to secure ones, too.

    • plz1@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 month ago

      NextDNS makes all of the browser stuff you’re talking about moot, other than ads served by the app/site itself. Also blocks ads in apps, games, etc. I can’t even remember what it was like to play a mobile game that has video ads jammed in your face.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 month ago

      Holy mackerel, GrapheneOS and Ironfox are free, unmonetized software ya know…

      Guess I’m not surprised, but you Apple users live like this?

      • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Nope. Setting up an ad-blocking DNS server, or installing a web browser with an ad blocker, is as easy (and free) on iOS as it is on Android.

        Look up instructions for Mullvad DNS or NextDNS.

  • Deralaand@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    AdGuard used in your DNS, whether at device level or in your router can also accidentally make certain functions fail. A lot of activity that redirects you to a secondary sight may get blocked with zero explanation. Updating an e-reader library (Nook) was blocked. I’m not saying don’t use AdGuard. I’m just saying that if you run into issues with things that used to work, check to see if it’s AdGuard.

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    I just put these DNS servers into my device and most ads disappear with no effort…

    Not sure what tracking they do of me though.

    AdGuard DNS will block ads and trackers. 94.140.14.14 94.140.15.15