Block your ads
(midwest.social)
Programmer Humorcross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46625654
Adblock is a form of self-care and should be enabled at all times tbh
Well, that stuff is pretty much just water, so it's ok.
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.)
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.
Holy mackerel, GrapheneOS and Ironfox are free, unmonetized software ya know...
Guess I'm not surprised, but you Apple users live like this?
Most ads are gone when your DNS blocks them anyway. Can't you change your DNS on iPhones? Preferably to secure ones, too.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#ios
Well at least it isn't a beer ad.
They even got ads for horse piss now?!
If they can get people to buy it, they'll sell anything.
That’s why the adage goes “a fool and their money are soon parted”.
