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Why is it any worse on your phone? You can run uBlock Origin on Firefox on Android (one of the biggest reasons I don't understand why anyone would want to use Chrome).

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ooo... people apparently put up with ads on chrome or youtube app or any other app even "system apps" like those insidious xiaomi people, because "1. ads on tv are always there, why should phones or laptops be different and 2. some poor youtuber needs to earn. whats wrong in spending 30 seconds if it earns money to someone"....

urrgh. i use pi hole, ublock on firefox on desktops and android and i still find that sneaky ad creep in sometimes. makes me sick. newpipe helps a lot actually

I run tracker Control, it acts as a 'vpn' so it can block ads, not unlike a firewall.

This let's you block ads on a system level or as I do on my p30 Pro not let any of the system apps connect to the Internet.

https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android

Why not use Private DNS feature with an ad-blocking provider like adguard? Not sure if you have the option but you can as well control internet connection per app at the system level too. This last option might be available for android 11+ I think.

I would rather some apps not have Internet access at all, blocking tracking and ads is good but them not getting any data at all is even better.

seeing as I have no way to disable system apps as I'm not rooted.

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