Officially Tara 🕷️  🌹Aug 29, 2023
i just got the best pop up I've ever received on a website, on @stefan 's website
Show threadOfficially Tara 🕷️  🌹Aug 29, 2023

in related news, i just discovered that you can install ad blocker plugins to mobile Firefox now.

IDK how i missed that. how many years have i been suffering ads on mobile unnecessarily!??!??

Show threadkeithzgAug 29, 2023
@tarajdactyl @reay Another mobile adblocking approach worth noting: you can run a "VPN" app that is actually not connecting to any remote server, instead it's just running all network traffic through an adblocking filter on your phone. In some ways this isn't as powerful as an in-browser blocker, but it also lets you block ads when the app in question doesn't offer such niceties!

The one I've been using myself is AdAway, but I'm sure others exist for Android and iOS too:
https://adaway.org/
AdAway

AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android. Block ads system-wide using hosts file or VPN-based filtering. No root required.

AdAway
Show threadOfficially Tara 🕷️  🌹Aug 29, 2023

@keithzg @reay oh that's clever.

i used pihole for a long while but then something happened and i took it down and never got it back up. didn't even consider that there might be more on-device options now

Show threadDawn Tåke 🌙 

@tarajdactyl

@keithzg @reay
DuckDuckGo's btowserfor android does the same. I use that when not actually on a VPN.

The CEO of DDG actually answered my question on Twitter that they are the ones maintaining the F-Droid version too. This was like, 3 days before some shit hit the fan, so I wonder what he was doing answering rando's questions, but hey.

Aug 29, 2023 at 5:01amWeb