I have a friend who’s alcohol consumption has gotten out of control. Me and his other friends/family are planning an intervention and so I’ve been doing a lot of research/reading on the topic.

NEVER and I mean NEVER have I seen so many fucking ads for alcohol in my LIFE. Instagram? 15 ads in a half hour of scrolling reels. YouTube? Ads. Google results? Ads. Twitter? Ads.

It’s fucking everywhere and it’s SICK. I’m researching how to help someone stop drinking and I’m getting inundated with ads for anything from gin, beers, vodkas and more. I can’t even imagine having an alcohol issue and trying to find help for myself with the web being this way.

It’s fucking sick.

  • kamenLady@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    Sorry for spamming, i already wrote this in response to another comment, but i kind of find this important for everyone:

    First thing everyone should do on a new phone ( or old phone, any phone )

    1. go to Internet & Network Settings

    2. Enter “dns.adguard.com” for Private DNS

    3. Profit: never see ads anywhere on your phone. Not in apps and in no browser.

    It’s as simple as that. That’s all you need, in order too block ads globally.

    Iirc there are different DNS servers from adguard with custom filters. Some are more strict and others more loose on the blocking.

    This instruction is for Android, since it’s what i use, but I’m sure, similar setting exists in iOS.

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        1 year ago

        You can self-host it (e.g. on a raspberry pi) and point it to upstream DNS servers not associated with Adguard or Russia (e.g. Google DNS, Cloudflare DNS, OpenDNS, etc). I myself use the self-hosted version.