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> The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads.

Most people don’t.

Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like:

- 1Blocker - super full featured, including custom script and css rules. business model is paid software, not ‘acceptable ads’ paying them for placement or third parties paying for your data

- AdGuard Pro - Similar to 1Blocker, less custom config friendly

- https://nextdns.io/ - pihole type blocker with unlimited configurations, custom rules, and analytics, native hooks for devices

- https://adguard-dns.io/ - similar DNS[1] service to nextdns.io with ability to upload your own rules based configurations

- Firefox Focus if using that ecosystem

- Brave if using that ecosystem

- iCab Mobile if wanting a super configurable browser with filter rules and longest history as indie browser for iOS

Folks also use ancillary quieters such as:

- Hiya - call / sms blocking

- Hushed - throwaway numbers for spam SMS

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1. Note that the AdGuard public DNS server including custom DNS filtering rules has just (26 August 2022) gone open source: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-dns-2-0-goes-open-source...

parent Terretta 4 years ago

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