You mean like a pi-hole? I use one of those and I love it. Ain’t no way I set up one of those for him. Then that’s another thing I have to support when it inevitably has problems.
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
TBF Firefox on Android is not as good as it could be, it can be frustrating when it doesn’t load tabs sometimes or slows down to a crawl for no reason.
I still use it, but I can see why people might have bad experiences with it.
Cromite is buggy af from my experience and it’s pretty out of date. Brave is the only remaining chromium option other than like DuckDuckGo, but it has its own big problems.
My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”
“Ok give me one”
“You’d have to use firefox”
“Never mind then, I want chrome”
Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.
Set him up with a DNS blocker. It’s browser independent and can also be used on mobile.
You mean like a pi-hole? I use one of those and I love it. Ain’t no way I set up one of those for him. Then that’s another thing I have to support when it inevitably has problems.
Not a pi-hole. DNS name resolver can be set by system. You just need to use some sort of blocker that is maintained by someone else for the namespace
Any suggestions?
check out this list: https://publicdns.info/best-adblocking.html
using the adguard dns is probably easiest, fire and forget. nextdns gives you more settings and controls.
on android you can e.g. drop “dns.adguard-dns.com” in the “private dns” setting and you’re good, system-wide
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
TBF Firefox on Android is not as good as it could be, it can be frustrating when it doesn’t load tabs sometimes or slows down to a crawl for no reason.
I still use it, but I can see why people might have bad experiences with it.
I don’t have an issue with it. I’m also using privacy badger and noscript
Yeah… As a Firefox user on android, Firefox on android isnt very good :/
it only did that when on reddit, i think reddit does intentionally to force you to use the app.
Firefox on Android kinda sucks. Hook him up with Cromite.
Does it? I haven’t tried anything else in years.
Cromite is buggy af from my experience and it’s pretty out of date. Brave is the only remaining chromium option other than like DuckDuckGo, but it has its own big problems.
The browser situation on Android is screwed