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Every time I see an ad, I make a mental note to avoid the brand.

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I would do this but I don’t see any ads

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I have always used an ad blocker in the browser, but i recently jumped on the DNS blocking train and it’s like a whole new kind of awesome on my phone in particular.

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I used to do that, but now I use apps without ads in them for the most part

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3 points

Feels good, man.

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2 points

What are ads? I saw one back in 2009, but cannot be sure.

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8 points

Amen to that brother 🔥

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44 points

70% add ons, 30% to fight Chrom(e)ium monopoly.

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44 points

There are more reasons than that, but it’s definitely near the top of my list.

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Definitely, but if I was trying to make a sales pitch to an average person, that’s what I’d lead with. Add-ons on FF Mobile make something like YouTube Premium completely redundant

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Another reason for the average person: Ads eat up your data cap, they’re costing you money if your carrier/isp auto charges you if you go over.

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1 point

like YouTube Premium completely redundant

Well not really, not having ads is only like 1/3 of the feature set of youtube premium

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Premium only gets a third of the ads anyway. In-video sponsors, Shorts, News, Shopping, Irrelevant search results, Memberships, Data Tracking, and Hidden Dislikes are all still present.

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I also went completely to FF on my phone the moment it had uBlock Origin and some other extensions. Now that I learned how to force other ones, it has been game over for other browsers aside from just seeing how they are every now and then (I work with general public and need to be aware of how they work). The only thing I would really really advise in addition to FF on a non-rooted device is setting the Mullvad ad-blocking/tracking blocking DNS for the device.

It helps even if I need to use a different browser (not as good as also having uBO), and has really good chances of blocking ads in many apps. For example, I kind of treat the Microsoft Solitaire app since it keeps games and stats from my PC. However they have lots of video ads that play after a couple of games. With the DNS it just kind of glitches when an ad should run and just goes on to the next round instead. The only odd thing I see with other apps is that it can cause my bank app to take a little longer to load when signing in (I am guessing due to tracking it is trying to do). But after like ten seconds it goes through like normal.

This is the DNS address to add if you want:

https://base.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

And here is the main site for all their options and tester to make sure whichever one you pick is working:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

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Don’t forget to add a phone wide adblocking DNS too.

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Blokada 5 is great (I think that’s what that does I don’t actually know these things but it does block ads phone-wide!)

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AdGuard (app & DNS) does a decent job on iOS.

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