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[–] 36 points 1 month ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Set him up with a DNS blocker. It's browser independent and can also be used on mobile.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    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/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Even Samsung tablets allow the change of the private DNS-Resolver. Android uses DoT. Start for example with adguard, or quad9:

    unfiltered.adguard-dns.com dns.quad9.net

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Firefox on Android kinda sucks. Hook him up with Cromite.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Cromite is buggy af from my experience and it's pretty out of date.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

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