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Edit: Replies are far more informed than I am. I'm using Firefox on Android for the reasons outlined in my original comment, preserved below

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> Serious question: Why do you browse the web without an ad blocker? I can't imagine subjecting myself to that kind of torture.

As best as I know: doing this on mobile (assuming that's their platform) requires both:

* a non-iOS device (Android basically)

* a non-Chromium browser on said device (Firefox basically)

That pairing is the only reason I can adblock on mobile. Not sure if things changed on Chrome or related browsers on Android, but as best as I remember, iOS and Android+Chrome aren't adblock-friendly.

On iOS, there's AdGuard if you want to use Safari, and Firefox Focus if you don't.

Firefox focus blocks ads in Safari too. Any content blocker will work in Safari, as far as I know.

FWIW, I use firefox focus in Firefox in iOS, and it didn’t stop one of the things the parent mentioned.

NextDNS works really nicely on OS/Apps. Also blocks ad/tracking content in iOS. It's actually quite easy to roll this yourself, which I intend to: wireguard+pihole.

would need to subject oneself to the pushy notifications, whims of Brendan Eich, and the dubious approach of the BAT cryptocurrency [1], but the Chromium based Brave browser on Android has a built in ad-blocker.

I think Opera might have one too.

[1] <https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...>

If I am not wrong, don't Brave and Vivaldi (Chromium browsers) have inbuilt ad blocking?

You are not wrong, I'm using Vivaldi on Android and it has built-in ad blocker. On this page though are two big dialogs: for cookies on top and "2 free stories remaining" on bottom, so even with ad blocker only 1/3 of the screen is visible until you manually remove these annoyances.

> a non-Chromium browser on said device (Firefox basically)

Mmmm. I can use Adblock in Edge Beta on Android.

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