I’ve finally picked up an iPhone about a month ago, and have been loving the experience.
However I’m now thrown into an ad-full world again (I used to have a browser blocking many if not most ads on the android), so I’m wondering, what adblockers do you use (may it be safari extension or entirely new browser for my fellow Europeans)?
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AdGuard Pro
Same, very happy with it, blocks everything, and also includes VPN.
Youtube ads are a bit tricky, but can also be blocked by opening videos through the AdGuard app.
haven’t seen a youtube ad in safari using adguard free. would recommend
AdGuard + Vinegar blocks YouTube ada quite well most of the time.
Does it work for other browsers like Firefox?
Sadly no.
What’s the difference between the pro and non-pro version?
I think you can’t add custom rules in the free version or something.
Wipr because it has no subscription bs and has proper block lists for my country.
This! Wipr on phone and Mac. Pi-Hole in my home network.
And for annoyances there’s also Consent-O-Matic and SponsorBlock installed.
Great model, just tips, so I tip when I notice an update
I use Wipr in combination with NextDNS. For ads in Browsers and in Apps.
Don’t know if it’s better, but for free, Firefox Focus includes an ad-blocker for Safari.
I love Firefox Focus! The safari integration is great!
NextDNS is my latest approach and it’s working well.
NextDNS is the best choice imho.
A DNS ad filter on your home network to black hole the requests to ad servers is the only thing I’ve found to be effective on iOS. I tried the ad guard extension in safari but there were just way too many ads that didn’t get blocked
AdGuard, and Vinegar for YouTube.
Do Vinegar actually work? I tried it previously and it didn’t do anything for me, tried it again now since it was mentioned and YouTube ads still appear in Safari…
It works for me, it’s a bit janky though because of YouTube’s custom link handler. You have to either open videos in new tabs or reload the page after clicking the video for it to load correctly.
Tbh I don’t actually know if it’s supposed to remove ads, I use it to get the better (Safari built in) video player that can do Picture in Picture and what not.
Could it be localized?
What do you mean?
Could its function be based upon blocklists that are localized as in different for different region
I don’t think YouTube does anything for that to be necessary, but I could be wrong.
Vinegar worked for me but I had issues with YouTube throttling it and the video constantly restarting
Pi-Hole via VPN and Firefox Focus
AdGuard Pro. Blocks everything.
I use a combination of PiHole via a VPN to my home server and Orion browser.
Its greatly improved my experience.
Proton VPN
Yeah this is what I used when I had iphone
Edit: I still use the same method on my pixel as well
Eero’s home network ad blocker paired with AdGuard. Works well enough. Although so many people have blockers now that even my favorite sites, which I whitelist, are tough to read because of the amount of ads keeping them in business. ArsTechnica I’m looking at you. Yeah, I could subscribe but I’m a cheap bastard. I’d rather be able to retire than pay for a site.
Redundant PiHoles on my home network and the iOS devices always run a WireGuard tunnel back to home.
Pi-hole. Kind of annoying that you have to disable Private Relay for it to work but well worth not ever seeing ads again.
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Pihole and tailscale.
