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Also got Adguard lifetime and quite happy with it. Although it stopped some of my apps (especially banking apps) from working, so I had to manually whitelist them.
I liked their phone app, but on the desktop it's hard to recommend over extensions like UBO. HTTPS filtering (though optional) is also a bit sketchy; anything that has you installing their own root certificate.
There is also another similar product on Stacksocial, called AdLock. I don't know if anybody tried it or how it's different. Reviews are always appreciated.
anyone know if theres a way to block youtube shorts?
was not able to checkout by paypal.
PayPal worked for me just now. Thing works great, even took down ads on LET lol
I can't believe it took me this long to put adblock on my mobile... Oh well hehe
try this mobile browser called bromite
Lets say you use a public wifi and "exploit" it with visiting pr0n sites or s3x toy ecommerce, so anyone who use the same wifi will get ads based on it?
Possible?
Yes I did it when I were in school like 10 years ago, its called wifi hijacking or men in the middle attack
In case you have AdGuard Mobile and you don't have YT premium, or a modified YT app like New Pipe, AdGuard has this now:
what exactly is the difference between adguard and adguardDNS?
Adguard in the context of this thread is an app, a local mitm proxy. Technically its similar to ublock origin. All the blocking is done locally. Should be better in blocking than ublock origin because it works systemwide since its an app rather than extension like ublock origin that only works on the browser its installed.
Adguard dns is dns based adblock similar to blahdns, controld, nextdns, controld etc where the blocking happens remotely on their server. Even the adguard dns is now 2 product, the totally free original service which we can't choose what to block or unblock, and another new one ala nexdns where its paid and we can fine tune choose blocklist whitelist etc.
i need to block ads from youtube app on my android tv, can adguard block them?
for now my kid use the original app (with double ads every couple of minutes) while im using alternative youtube app for tv named SmartTube (yes its ads free) but no way i would log in to my google account with it.
ofcourse yt premium is still my last choice, just need a cheaper option
Why not? it uses OAuth, you don't have to give it your password. It is as safe as using your Google/GitHub login on a random website, if not more so because it is open source and you can check the code.
thanks @cupcake
I don't trust these websites. You can also find tons of very cheap deals on cloud storage on the websites such as this. These deals are obviously very fishy, as it's just not financially viable for a company to provide these services to you for so cheap.
uBlock Origin Lite / uBlock Origin on Desktop Browsers and Brave browser on Android. You can also use private dns / DoT on android. Why do you need AdGuard?
I think it's mostly for in app ads, etc. $16 onetime is honestly not terrible considering what the app offers, I'll probably get some OK usage out of it. It's definitely the first deal that's made me consider dealing with StackSocial.
I had good experience with controlD. I have configured this in my router and it blocks most of the ad related domains.
https://controld.com/free-dns
Here is a simple test to check how effective your ad blocking is...
https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html
thanks for the mention.
Don't use bromite. It was abandoned about a year ago and does not receive any updates.
What would you recommend as an alternative? I really liked using a Chrome fork that had no extra bullshit, but it sucks to see it abandoned.
EDIT: looks like one of the devs forked it, can use https://github.com/uazo/cromite for the fork. Looks like https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/Mull-Fenix is an alternative based on Firefox if you're into that sort of thing.
I am currently using Brave and Mull.
Divest OS Browser page has a very good overview of Android Browsers. https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
For Adblocking on Android I use RethinkDNS