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Comment by awiejrliawjer | Hacker News Reader

Oh god yes. It filters out ~50% of my youtube. I'm at the point where I can't view websites on my phone anymore because I can't stand all the ads, three popup videos all autoplaying and talking over each other ... ublock origin provides such a stark contrast.

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Maybe you already know it: you can filter ads by DNS on phones (manually configured or with pseudo VPN apps), and if you don't mind using other mobile browsers, on Android Firefox supports ad blockers and Brave (Android and IOS) has an integrated one.

Why not use Firefox mobile, on which ublock origin can be installed?

Only on Android, not iOS. I have an iphone now after android my whole life. The biggest feature it's missing is the ability to block ads. It means I refuse to use the browser on my phone, which is a pretty big feature to lack.

Maybe try AdGuard. It does a fantastic job of blocking ads for me on iOS.

You can definitely blocks ads on your iPhone browser. Use a content blocker like wipr or firefox focus.

Phones have adblockers too. I know they are harder to use on Android than iOS, but both have them.

Without VPN, iOS doesn't have an ad blocker for in-app ads, like YouTube. And blockers for browsers is extremely poor, routinely failing to block ads. Then there are sites which detect ad blockers and flag them, prevent the site from being used without disabling the ad blocker on Safari/WebView.