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I saw there was a thread about ad blocking on android but I was wondering the best methods for ad blocking that cover the entire phone if possible like in app ads and such as well.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why limit yourself to just your phone, use a pi-hole and block ads for your whole network.

And when I’m out, I have a vpn running on the phone back to my home network and block ads on 4g/5g as well

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's DNS based ad blocking, isn't it? If so, it doesn't help with all kinds of ads.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

YouTube still slips through the net unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, because their ads are served on the same server (googlevideo.com iirc) as the actual videos. Blocking that domain would block the videos too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IOS and Brave browser auto blocks Youtube ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yattee with Invidious is a great alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same with piped pwa app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't do better than that on iOS. But the PiHole still goes a long way. It made web browsing from my phone tolerable when combined with the content blockers from Firefox Focus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry but that is false. Ad block pro on safari and yt ads are no more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safari content blockers don't cover the entire phone like the OP was asking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Op was asking for multiple things, one was yt. I mentioned adblock because it works well. Combined with pihole its quite good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish vpn could always be enabled if possible atm.

Also, for ios the only thing that works for me on yt is safari + adblock pro

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Use either NextDNS or adguard. They are DNS-level ad blockers, so a quick configuration of your DNS settings and ur good to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At system level you can use AdGuard DNS. Search in the settings app for DNS and set custom DNS to dns.adguard-dns.com

On Safari you can download the AdGuard app and configure it as a content blocker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Proton VPN does block ads in apps. You'll need to pay for the ad blocking though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using 1Blocker for years. It used to be a one-time purchase, but now it’s free with many features requiring a subscription.

I do subscribe, though. It’s updated frequently, can block trackers in apps, and syncs settings across all my devices. Its comment block feature has probably kept me sane.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id1365531024

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some VPNs have options for adblocking (dns based)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

HyperWeb safari extension

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lockdown is a blacklist style “vpn” that is run on your device and will help with ads and tracking when browsing and in games. For YouTube, I go about sideloading uyou plus which covers any ads and similar issues within YouTube itself.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/lockdown-privacy-vpn-proxy/id1469783711

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use adguard and adguard VPN on my phone. I have an adguard home server set up on my home network so I use that when I’m at home instead. I don’t VPN into my network as others have suggested because I have Xfinity and I have limited monthly data.